Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Painfully unfunny "comedy" about a disgusting woman (Roseanne Barr) whose husband (Ed Begley, Jr.) cheats on her with a romance novelist (Meryl Streep), so she decides to get revenge. It's amazing how unsympathetic Roseanne's character is. I don't blame Begley for cheating. She's vomitous (both the character and the actress playing her). This movie is just a complete misfire. The comedy is so broad and all over the place. Begley and Streep seem to be playing it as some sort of parody, with Streep in particular giving a ridiculously over the top (but never funny) performance. Meanwhile Roseanne is playing the whole thing straight in her usual "nails on a chalkboard" way. I just hated everybody in this and wished unhappiness on them all. If you like watching movies where ugly people do ugly things to one another, then this is right up your alley. I would rather let Roseanne sit on me (i.e. kill myself) than watch it again.

Meryl Streep has gained some acclaim at award shows (and on YouTube) for her wry humor and positive energy (Watch the speech she gave when she won the Emmy for Angels in America). This was one of the reasons I downloaded this somewhat obscure movie. Roger Ebert's generous review was another reason (He gave it a surprising 3 out of 4 stars and praised both Roseanne and Meryl).The movie's plot is taut and simple, under-appreciated and unattractive housewife Ruth (Roseanne) envies beautiful women and does her best to bring her husband Bob (Ed) to the bed. Unfortunately, her husband has malicious eyes that cannot resist perfect female anatomy (no straight men can resist, but this man's a womanizer) and is easily allured by a popular romantic authoress Mary Fisher (Meryl), who in her interviews is shown to have an unblemished life. When Mary and Bob get intimate and Rob leaves Ruth, Ruth seeks revenge against Rob and Meryl. For this she has to destroy Bob's assets (thank god it isn't Rob's jewels, because that would've been painful!)-his home, his new family, career and freedom. This makes Ruth a 'She-Devil'.Jane Lynch would've nailed this role; the vindictive nature creased with an emotional touch that her character in Glee has is superbly conceived by Jane. Roseanne is however mediocre; she is like 'Precious' from the movie of the same name, playing Ruth, with slight laggardness does not make her character very likable.Meryl, on the other hand gives more skin to her character; I read a number of reviews that lambast her performance for being too wooden. Her character is uppity and pretentious, what more can she do? I've seen some high-class, good-for-nothing people talk and behave the same touch-me-not way, and Meryl gets that right. An exaggeration would have ruined her performance, since both Roseanne and Sylvia Miles (who plays Mrs. Fisher)'s characters are overly exaggerated. It's not an award-worthy performance, but it's great for a comedy. Some of her best scenes include: (i) the outburst at her mother (ii) the bubble-bath-love scene when the kid interrupts and asks about the satellite dish and she gracefully turns around and goes back (iii) the last outburst. The supporting cast is all ordinary, with the only exception being Sylvia who is better-than-ordinary.Now there are some fundamental problems with the story, because of which I could not sympathize with Ruth. The major one, that has been mentioned in some other reviews too, is her actual revenge that is aimed at Mary rather than Ed. It's like the recent controversy in Karnataka, India, where the paramour of a top regional actor was banned for three years from the film industry after the wife of the actor complained to the police that the husband had beaten her up when she had confronted him regarding the affair. Here at least the wife and the law used their head and got the man arrested and lifted the ban on the actress. Ruth however destroys Mary for majority of the film and then targets Ed, though Ed seems more licentious.Another problem is with the consequences of the events. Ruth starts and employment agency to help women then makes them her weapons and on top of that almost destroys a woman's career. If in the ending, Meryl had gone to Ruth, apologized and made Ruth her publisher, and then it would've had a better alls-well-that-ends-well ending. This is Mary becoming Ruth and Ruth becoming Mary which is somewhat disturbing since I can't say then that Mary deserved it. Also, Bob never turns a better man, and Ruth forgiving him is just pathetic. Bob actually deserved a good pummeling.The movie falls short on laughs, and fails to provide justice to all the characters, especially the children who become spoilt towards the end (like most of the Disney girls).My Rating: 3/10

So many things are overrated in the media. but She-Devil is a really good movie that is underrated. Roseanne is awesome as a woman seeking revenge on her two timing husband and his rich mistress romance novelist and comes up with some pretty awesome schemes to give them what they deserve. what she does in this movie changes the lives of everyone. its like Mean Girls and John Tucker Must Die for adults. anyone who has been cheated, rejected, backstabbed or lied to will appreciate this movie and fans of Roseanne and Meryl Streep will absolutely love this movie. its a smart,dark, inspirational movie and a great way to end the 80s.

In my deep heart of hearts, I knew that this was a bad movie, I mean it wasn't well thought out or that well acted and kind of biased. But Despite that fact, for some odd reason, I really did like this movie. I think because I loved the fact on how real it was, I think a lot of women could relate to Rosanne, either looks wise or their love lives. She was so realistic and heart breaking, but you rooted for her all the way into the end. Even though it was kind of pathetic how she kept on obsessing over her ex, I think a lot of us, men or women, have done that.I also love Meryl Streep, because she reminded me of my step mom. She accepts her new boy's children into her house, but ends up with more than she bargained for. I loved her scene with her agent and how her new book would be a flop, "Your lead male's name is Bob?", "I think Bob is a beautiful name!" and her breaking down was just perfect. The husband got what he deserved and you just kept of rooting for Rosanne. It's a guilty pleasure that more people take it for.6/10