Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. A lab-engineered weepie!
2. Columbus' awkward direction randomly maneuvers the audience's emotions from grieving to giddy.
3. There ain't no filmmaking gesture low enough for Stepmom.
4. You won't be able to suspend your disbelief, but you will need extra tissues.
5. Manipulative drivel whose main purpose is to supply an outlet for product placements!
6. The movie's patronizing smugness, an often ham-handed script credited to five different screenwriters and at least one major performance that's not quite in sync, seem to hamper all the good intentions.
7. It's a film that takes valid, complex family dynamics regarding divorce, remarriage, and parenting and reduces it all to bitchy catfighting, obvious button-pushing, and tawdry clichés.
8. The most impressive thing about it is that the actors manage to sound so earnest while mouthing the most shameless cliches imaginable!
9. The movie is well-intentioned and appealing, but it can't stay emotionally honest for 20 minutes at a stretch.
10. Cheap melodrama!

What was the overall consensus about the movie?
Great performances from the leads can't save this factory mill tearjerker.