liv tyler was lovely.

The attempts at a joke are mostly bad and the story is quite cliched but it has a big warm heart and Smith excels at dialogue as usual. Affleck and Carlin deliver very solid performances.

Not bad, but not Kevin Smith's best.

Jersey Girl(2004)-7/10...sweet, funny and heartfelt comedy from writer/director Kevin Smith starring Ben Affleck as a once successful publicist, now struggling to raise his 7 year old daughter after the death of his wife during child berth. Got a bad... (read more) Jersey Girl(2004)-7/10...sweet, funny and heartfelt comedy from writer/director Kevin Smith starring Ben Affleck as a once successful publicist, now struggling to raise his 7 year old daughter after the death of his wife during child berth. Got a bad wrap when it was released, but it really is a nice little film...cast also includes Liv Tyler, George Carlin, Jason Biggs and Jennifer Lopez.

Lightweight and predictable, but Ben Affleck is still adorable as a clueless-but-loving father.

J-Lo needed to die sooner. Bonus points for Sweeney Todd.

Even if Ben Affleck gives a surprisngly poignant performance, "Jersey Girl" lacks in so many other areas that it never really becomes a minorly good film. The story is a tad messy, the chemistry betweem Affleck and Liv Tyler is practically transparen... (read more) Even if Ben Affleck gives a surprisngly poignant performance, "Jersey Girl" lacks in so many other areas that it never really becomes a minorly good film. The story is a tad messy, the chemistry betweem Affleck and Liv Tyler is practically transparent, and some of the supporting characters (here's looking at you Jason Biggs) are annoying and inessential. Doesn't help that a very unrealistic scene (in which Will Smith makes a cameo appearance) ruins a could-have-been cute ending. For a better father-daughter dramedy - I recommend both 1973's "Paper Moon" and 2006's "Little Miss Sunshine" instead.

Smith's story is like a nightmare amalgam of decades of single-dad sitcoms: mawkish, cloying, and essentially bogus.

Kevin Smith's neuters his sense of humor for Jersey Girl, an old-fashioned ode to paternal love that shamelessly goes for its audience's tear ducts.