48
Metascore
33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorSarandon's motherly sexiness is appealing, but it's Hawn, in a warm and deep performance as the hapless but free-spirited Suzette, who walks away with the movie.
- 67Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldHawn mows down everything in her path with a giggle. It's great fun to watch her just eat up this movie.
- 60SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinA too-pat but very funny comedy.
- 60Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadayThe sexual frankness is refreshing. As Suzette and Lavinia banter, their dialogue often suggests how "Sex and the City" might sound 20 years hence.
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghWatching Sarandon and Hawn sashay through their paces is its own reward.
- 60New Times (L.A.)Robert WilonskyNew Times (L.A.)Robert WilonskyIt has its moments, but they never add up to a record you'd want to play again and again in its entirety.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenCould have taken a witty scalpel to baby-boomer posturings. But Dolman, whose instrument of choice is the rubber mallet of smarm, just isn't the man for the job -- he ends up enshrining the very hypocrisy that should be dissected.
- 50Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachBaltimore SunChris KaltenbachThe Banger Sisters stands as proof that no movie is so bad it can't be redeemed by a single stellar performance. That performance is by Susan Sarandon.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenCertainly begins with its heart in the right place. But the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure.