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Raising Helen (2004)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C- Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...the movie manages to bash both career women and stay-at-home moms." more... D+ Boston Globe Ty Burr "Helen works so hard to be inoffensive that you may well be offended." more... C- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "From beginning to end, we've been there, seen that." more... C   Chicago Tribune Mark Caro "On the plus side, the director invariably communicates an affection for his characters, which helps the time pass agreeably, if not quickly." more... C   Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "...as glossy as it is forgettable." more... D+ E! Online "It's like two hours of the worst sitcom you've ever seen." more... D   filmcritic.com Pete Croatto "Raising Helen feels wrong from the start..." more... C- Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden "The likable Hudson is hampered, her character's transition denied oomph, by having to be so reassuring throughout." more... C+ New York Post Jonathan Foreman "It's as if one of the film's four writers had ambitions beyond sitcom hackery and hoped to write something connected to human reality." more... C   New York Times Stephen Holden "Raising Helen, a soft-hearted, squishy-minded prototype for a network sitcom, is mildly ingratiating but never laugh-out-loud funny." more... C- ReelViews James Berardinelli "This is mediocre summer fare at best..." more... C   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...Raising Helen is like tumbling into chick-flick hell." more... D   San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein "Raising Helen is far from the worst cookie-cutter film to come off the Hollywood assembly line, merely the latest." more... C   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...there's no doubt that Hudson herself has the stuff of a star." more... B- USA Today Mike Clark "This movie's chief distinction: It's a family movie that features a Paris Hilton cameo." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)