Steel Magnolias

This movie may truly be one of the worst. The acting is HORRIBLE!!It's worse than horrible-there truly are no words. Nothing about it works. The funny thing is, it was so bad that I found myself not able to tear myself away from it, wondering if it could get any worse. I was especially interested to see how the actress would portray Shelby's hypoglycemic attack. Sigh. My expectations were not high, and it's a good thing. I know type I diabetics and her reaction (staring into space all wide-eyed and in a trance)just could not be more off. It was at this point, I just couldn't take it anymore and had to change the channel.

It's OK. I wasn't sure if this would work out or not. Its OK. Not great but not bad either. I love the older version better.

OK, another reviewer said Shelby in the original was a b*t*h? Um...how? She was spoiled, yes but not a b*t*h. What an idiot! Also, apparently you have never seen anyone with diabetes reacting with too much insulin and not enough sugar in their bodies. They sweat, pass out, and freak out because they can't control themselves. Thats a bad episode but it happens. I have seen it a lot.

They would have been better off not making a remake of this movie. I really thought it might have been funny and great. Not so much. I am a huge fan of Queen Latifa. Thats why I watched it. Just didn't seem to work as well as they thought. Good try though.

This is one remake that should have never been considered, let alone done.

First, the casting was all wrong. Why in the world would anyone, including Latifah, think she was the perfect choice to play the role Sallie Field's originated? Of those actresses, Phylicia Rashad would've played it best. Alfre Woodard would have been better playing Clarice and Jenifer Lewis would have been good as Ouiser. I like Jill Scott, I think she is a good actress, and she was good in her role. My issue was with her accent. She should not have attempted a southern accent. The other two actresses weren't bad in their parts. Their accents sucked too, but overall they were not that bad.

The original is a classic. The remake is a travesty.

Unfavorable for many reasons but mainly it didn't depict the culture of the actors, in action, word, or deed, not sure who would be responsible for this catastrophe the producer or the director, don't take the greatest of others and reduce it to unwarranted reviews. The original was great and thumbs up to the entire crew if no one else did I apologize for this terrible remake even though its so obvious that it didn't impact your performance in any form of the making of this movie there's just no comparison.

I absolutely love the original, but I hated the remake. The actresses failed to make the characters their own. There was so sentiment, no character development, no connection between them.

The original film has two strong scenes that they absolutely ruined in the remake. One, was the Shelby's seizure. Julia Roberts was amazing and didn't fear do push her limits. Rashad acted like she was drunk staring at nothing. No to mention the fact that Truvy poked her. I am not kidding. The moment Shelby starts having the seizure she pokes her.

Latifah may be a good actress but the role of M'Lynn was simply not for her. The highlight of the movie is her outburst. Shally Field was phenomenal during that scene. You could hear and feel her pain. Latifah said the words, but there was no emotion behind them.

The character of Shelby can be wrapped up in just one line. "I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special". Once again, they kept that quote hidden for the ending where it lost it's meaning.

I hated how they left out Spud and his confession in the end that he can't live without his wife. Anyway, I wouldn't watch it again. In fact I wanna watch the original once more just to get this fiasko out of my memory.