Garry Marshall

Features

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

By Bill Gibron

Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash. [1 May 2007]

Reviews

Georgia Rule (2007)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Careless and predictable, Georgia Rule offers up the abuse victim's "sexy" acting out as alternately beguiling and blameworthy. [11 May 2007]

Beaches: Special Edition (1988)

By Dan Zak

Beaches is the Goliath of those epic '80s melodramas, squashing patience and dignity and tact. [5 May 2005]

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'When you do a love story as part of your film, you need to do a lot of love scenes, so we can see the lovers together,' explains Garry Marshall. [13 December 2004]

Raising Helen (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'Raising Helen's a happy, peppy picture, with Kate Hudson and her legs,' says Garry Marshall. [13 October 2004]

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Even as it so loudly declares its interest in girls' independence, thoughtfulness, and generosity, Royal Engagement is disappointingly derivative, slapdash, and small-minded. [13 August 2004]

The Princess Diaries: Special Edition (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'You know, sometimes you use a relative,' says Garry Marshall. 'I heard that nepotism is legal, so I made it an art form.'" [9 August 2004]

Raising Helen (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Helen's initial efforts to maintain her previous life are as glib as her inheritance of the children. [28 May 2004]

Runaway Bride (1999)

By Cynthia Fuchs

I worry about Julia Roberts. I know I don't need to but still, I feel like I can't help it. It's not because she's a particularly convincing performer on or off screen, though she does look distressed or vulnerable much of the time. It's not because the promoters for her latest movie, Runaway Bride, have been running ads with the creepiest stalker song ever made, the Police's Every Breath You Take. [1 January 1995]

The Princess Diaries (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

[In 'The Princess Diaries'], among the many habits Mia must change is her too-teenish tendency to bob her head along with music on the radio ('You're not a doggie on a dashboard!' cries her alarmed grandma).