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Boring overly sentimental drivel, how this film has a higher IMDB rating than the vastly superior "The Devil Wears Prada" (also starring Anne Hathaway) is mind boggling, but it does speak volume for the generic, overly PC world, we now live in, and the inability of today's audiences to sort dreck from average, average from good, and good from great. To see one of the greatest actors of all time, Robert Deniro, slip even further into "Pay Cheque Bobby", is depressing to say the least.

Thats what the film is about. And everyone should adapt their lives for her hapiness and success and be happy to do so. And thats what they do in the film. Its a 100% chick movie pampering to present female fantasies about life full of unrealistic characters. De Niro was interesting in the beginning but than he becomes the daddy who supports his special princess girl.

Did anyone involved in making this movie really believe that this movie is good? This movie is so shallow that it makes a puddle look like an ocean. The idea of mixing a pompously acting Robert De Niro with a hysterically acting Anne Hathaway is an example of how not generate on-screen chemistry. Not that the acting is bad. It's the story. It's one ongoing cliché. It is a combination of dull, boring, and contrived. It's Father Knows Best meets I Love Lucy, except in this case the characters take themselves seriously. This movie manages to take several important social themes and reduce them to pulp, and even worse, reduce the principal characters to clichés. A bored older retiree with nothing but time and a manic young business woman. C'mon! Not exactly the cutting edge of literary originality. And what is worse, they are not funny characters. The supporting cast is funny, but they are not the principal players. Now the story has potential. The movie actually starts strongly. The De Niro character is introduced and his issues clearly presented. Then the movie tanks, and tanks quickly. A promising start leads to a contrived story and muddled finale. This movie reaffirms the old movie maxim - never judge a movie by its coming attractions.

Too many cringe moments to enjoy the story. It's like the script is trying too hard to fit into an agenda instead of just telling a story.

I agreed to watch this movie because I was in a chill out mood and I didn't want to watch anything that made me think too much or that required much attention. Well, this movie succeeded with honors at the task.

If you are up to pay for high class actors' vacations, then this is the movie for you.

If you are all about getting money taken out of your pocket for the sake of it, then this is your movie.

If you are up to see an interesting drama, possibly well developed scripts and characters and actors at their very best... Well I'm sorry to be the one to disappoint you, but this is not the movie you are looking for.

Absolute nonsense and poorly developed scripts, big companies propaganda (Apple, Facebook, ...), bad acting (even for those big names), dialogs so cheesy that would make a Parisian's stomach roar in hunger. 'Nuff said.

Watch it if you don't mind having your intelligence neglected by the best marketing strategists in Hollywood.

This is the kind of movie I (like to) watch when sitting in a 10 hours flight, it kills time, you don't have to bother about the background noise of the engines muffling some beautiful score, you won't wake up your neighbors by laughing out loud and it's so boring that you do not need anything artificial to fall asleep. Somewhere in the movie De Niro talks to himself in the mirror... I couldn't but see his younger version in Taxi Driver and for 1 second I was hoping that he WOULD say his famous line, then we would all have been reassured that it was all just a big parody, but he didn't (of course) and everything went downhill further along. Two stars nevertheless because De Niro does what he does best, do the De Niro and Ann Hathaway is not that bad an actress.

the 2 stars are for De Niro, he is an actor of such high caliber that is wasted in this wishy washy flick. The premise is a good one and something that could have been taken to more places than this film did. Anne Hathaway is OK in her role but given the material she has to work with she struggles to show any brilliance. Mr De Niro is also hamstrung in his role as he seems to not be able to develop fully as a character. the drama what there is of it leaves you not really caring what happens to the people in this film. it is watchable, sadly predictable and too light and airy for my liking. Also I think the lack of a protagonist in this film is its hugest flaw. there is little serious conflict and not a lot of comedy.

A movie with so much potential leaves you wishing there was an extra hour to the move so that it can end far far far better than it did.

Instead it takes a powerful female adds a story line "sort of" and puts the entire female race back a good 50 years back

Two strong actors with the potential to pull the end to a far more satisfactory ending.

My family and I turned to each other at the end and were shocked to see the credits roll.

Anne Hathaway is a brilliant actress who coupled with a strong role kind of makes the movie fun.

VERY disappointing.

I guess the title says it all. Essentially the movie is a "passing of the torch" kind of story that tries to convey that capitalism is a good thing for everyone, and that it always was and always will be with us.

DeNiro's character represents "the old guard," while Hathaway portrays the newer generation, and they have a very predictable mentor-teacher relationship.

While telling a ton of endearing feel-good stories about working hard and getting your pay off, the film unknowingly establishes the reality of the failed meritocracy. The story's hero is someone who comes out of retirement and starts working at an entry-level job. He does it not for any financial reason but because he is "bored." He is very laid back and calm, while (younger) people around him are nervous, suffer, and don't know what to do. Leaving aside the unrealism of it all (in most cases, people have a hard time retiring and then keeping living in NY), the film shows that actually, the only people who can feel comfortable in the cutthroat capitalist reality are people who don't have anything invested in it.

While the cinematography is great, the film looks expensive and all; there is nothing of substance here, only a very predictable narrative that will anger anyone who is not 100% in the rat race.

I am frankly tired of men being portrayed as weak, cheaters, liars and sexists in every single movie out there. And people STILL Complain in this same page that this movie is offensive to women? ( or course, EVERYTHING is ofFensive to women nowadays)...Are you kidding me? And what's with the stay at home dad/ mom.. I am sorry, call me what you want ( frankly I don't really care, so don't waste your time) but men are not built to be "moms"..what the heck is wrong with our society? ...this "politically correct" approach today is making us to become a nation were men are brought up to be sissies ( I don't want to use another word ). Men are providers, they care for their families and protect them, period... We are wired that way. And to think that men have to switch roles with women and that is going to solve all our problems is a bunch of BS,.. There you have it.... Now you can begin with your typical stupid comments and labels: "sexist" "what age do you live in", etc, but many of you know that you think the same way as I do

And how is this even a good movie? Here is an older man telling a younger generation of people how to live life and succeed and without his "wisdom" the whole company would fold. This movie is just awful

Yes, that's right, Anders Holm was so incredibly bad that in the middle of an otherwise entertaining movie, that the only thing I could think about was how good the other actors were to offset his incompetency. He was so awful, so monotonic, so fake emotionally that I was drawn completely out of the story. I wonder how many thousands of takes it took to just get him through the flotsam of slop of cuts he left in his wake? Anders Holm. Is. That. Bad.

This was a bright, light script and De Niro absolutely made the movie. His character was endearing, and he played it seamlessly and expressively. While I like him in meatier scripts, he showed his versatility and makes acting look like a profession and art, not just an exercise in repeating memorized lines. Too bad Anders Holm wasn't paying attention and sank a pretty nice ship.

Really surprised the writer(s) think our generation is our parents! I'm 71, my fiancée is 69 and we groaned every time music was added. It couldn't have been more cheesy, like as if we were watching a Hallmark movie! Our generation listened to Led Zeplin, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Santana, etc., and the movie thought elevator music was our style! OMG!! Also acting like we're too old for technology by making Robert De Niro act like he could barely handle Facebook was pathetic. Using a hanky??? Seriously?!? Again only our parent's generation!! Insisting on wearing a suit?? That's laughable at best!!

If you are looking for a boring, predictable and too long movie full of terrible cliches and written for rich, old and conservative people: here you are!

Why does robert de niro participate in this? Some parts are so awful that you cant stop rolling your eyes... definitely not to recommand.

This movie it is just so boring. Nothing exiting happens! All the characters are not interesting. It's not a disaster or horrible, it's just not interesting.

Robert De Niro was so likeable and wise in this movie, it made me go awhhhhh!

I've seen loads of De Niro interviews and his face says it all. I don't want to be here, I don't want to answer your questions, when will this interview be over , etc, etc. Watching so called STARS be interviewed begrudgingly, is starting to really grate on me. If you want to peddle a movie, stick your game face on for a while, you get paid enough! If you are tired of giving interviews, then we're just as tired of listening to your uninteresting, stilted, painful, one word, boring answers. Better still, don't go to the interviews, no one wins De Nero.