It takes awhile for Monster-in-Law to bare its teeth, but once the movie does, everything on screen begins to click. As the harridan future in-law, Jane Fonda embraces the over-the-top, blackly comic tone from the start, and once Jennifer Lopez, as the
tormented bride-to-be, joins in, she proves surprisingly light on her feet. With invaluable sidekick support from Wanda Sykes as Fonda’s assistant.
