Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Sisters Georgia Mozell (Diane Keaton), Eve Marks (Meg Ryan) and Maddy Mozell (Lisa Kudrow) try to deal with their elderly father Lou (Walter Matthau) who is slowly fading into dementia. Party planner Eve is his caretaker as well as her own family and husband Joe Marks (Adam Arkin). Georgia is a successful editor of her magazine. Maddy is the self-obsessed soap actress. Their mother Pat (Cloris Leachman) is estranged from the family after the divorce.Walter Matthau dies soon after the movie's release. I wish he has a better final curtain call than this. The movie's premise seems to be that everybody is on their phone and they need to hang up. It doesn't make for an appealing cinematic experience. It tries to be comedic without actually being funny. I would rather this stay being more serious. The writing is too manufactured without real heart. The movie gets better whenever the sisters hang up and get together. I know that's the point of the movie but it just makes for a more comfortable watch.

OK, by not necessary I mean, this movie should not have been made.When I went to watch "Hanging Up" I was sick, and was thinking 'OK, I just feel like watching a stupid chick flick, whatever.' But, when I was done watching I asked my self why I didn't eject it 20 minutes in. This movie wasn't really chick-flickish the way I expected but, it also was even worse than I expected. This movie contains no likable characters. The only character who was semi-likable was Meg Ryan's. Every character is extremely annoying, and just when you think they aren't they get worse! The premise of the movie it's self is stupid. Everybody's heard the story before! Plus, how could they expect Diane Keaton being Meg Ryan's sister would work? I mean, she's more than 15 years older than her. Every character makes themselves less and less likable. The mother plain out says she hates being a mother and only had children as if it were some sort of fad. Sister, Georgia, is self consumed and takes credit for her sister's work. Other sister, Maddy, convinces herself that she cares about things when she really doesn't. The son seems likable, but then bludgeons you over the head with annoying laughter. The husband is pretentious and controlling. Overall, this movie goes nowhere. Who's idea was this to make it? I mean obviously the writer of the novel. Why would you write a book, and then decide to write a screenplay for the movie? Did she think the book didn't do it justice and thought there should be a movie? Plus, Diane Keaton directed it? Since she when can she direct? I mean, she is a good actress, but why did she direct this?Anyways, to the point. So, unless you enjoy movies with stupid plots and irritating characters don't watch this movie.

Telemarketer irritation--that's the feeling I had when I watched Hanging Up, an almost cartoonishly clichéd "woman's movie." Diane Keaton's direction of this mess is so incompetent that I hope she never stands behind a camera again. The movie fails on every level--it bored my wife and daughter (and it's only because I'm anal about finishing movies that I sat through 95 minutes of Hell; they went to bed).This was Walter Matthau's last movie, and it hurts to see such a premiere talent being wasted (although his toupee looks as if it could live on). Meg Ryan appears to have lost weight for Hanging Up (if that's possible) and seems to be carrying the mass of the world on her shoulders, physically dissipating in front of our eyes while wearing one paper-thin muscle shirt after another. Looking scrawny and bra-less isn't appealing to anyone.Okay, enough for the nastiness. This really is a waste of film stock. Whatever BIG messages it has about sibling rivalry and familial relationships and keeping your accident from your insurance company are lost in Keaton's attempt to play cute and/or sweet (the dog and the pill; the Iranian mom).The movie's called Hanging Up. My suggestion is to take the phone off the hook before the opening credits.

I have seem some awful films before (House of the Dead, Battlefield Earth et c), but Hanging Up was by far the worst movie ever. I will willingly watch any movie, Lifetime movies included, over Hanging Up. It was by far the most excruciating experience of my life. I wanted to die; suicide was an option somewhere around 15 minutes in. Half way through the movie I was convinced that Hell would be a blessing in comparison. I urge everyone to buy a copy of this movie and destroy it so that there won't be a singe copy of this available, thereby saving the future generations of America. Everyone who played a part in this movie, especially Meg Ryan, should be brought up on war crimes for taking part in Hanging Up.