Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Who payed the critics

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Never really watched it a lot, but it did give us Jessica Biel and a few others. ONE thing..Stephen Collins. I'm surprised no one mentioned the now known and famed sex scandal when he was caught as a child molester!Haven't seen it for years if it all, and after Stephen Collins's horrible crime, but may decide to see if it was really worth watching (content wise, it really was heaven for a lot of people)Anyway, Jessical Biel is one of the memorable things to come out of the show, with movies such as her costarring role in "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry', 2007, opposite Adam Sandler & Kevin James.Anyway, hard to judge a show by the real life scandals (which Biel herself in the 1990s had been involved with, a nude picture)..

So as the title says, this is a review of the reviews.I wonder where these reviewers were when the show was on the air? They pretend it wasn't a highly successful, highly rated show that lasted 11 seasons making it one of less than 30 prime time TV shows that ever ran as long.There were a lot of reasons for the success of the show and there seem to be a lot of people who hate that others enjoyed those reasons; an intact family, a religious bent, involved & dedicated parents, etc.7th Heaven was a terrific show and if it was a low rated as the reviewers give it, it wouldn't have lasted one season, let alone eleven,

The Camden parents are constantly stalking their kids and pushing them away because they have the nerve to live life without telling them everything. The kids constantly lie about little things and overall this seems realistic of religious families to me- having known children whose parents are nosy self-righteous ministers and gossipy self-righteous wives.Every situation is blown out of proportion and the whole show does not make Christianity appear to be an appealing option for young people who are experimenting in their "finding a purpose" stage of life. As the siblings grow older they also join in on the stalking and nosing into the business of their younger siblings- like they are the moral compasses in the world. Also, the fact that the father feels bad as subsequent kids don't blindly choose to follow in his footsteps and be ministers shows the truth behind the indoctrination into religions (i.e. kids do everything their parents want without thinking about it).If you are a family member who "rebels" by smoking a cigarette, having sex or even kissing a boy who your parents don't know (because they're overbearing and you have hidden him from them and lied) etc- then you are pushed away until you beg forgiveness or get sent to a psychiatrist (where you also lie and or just turn up and then leave). Even if the actors did "something wrong" (being paid to model- Jessical Biel) in their private lives outside of acting they were punished and ousted like the "devils" they are.These nosy parents don't ever learn and they keep being overbearing throughout the whole series- even after self-righteous "Annie Speeches" that include the words "We need to let them come to us when they're ready" and "maybe they don't feel comfortable telling us" (ya think?). They're slow and I guess the producers are also ministers because they don't ever develop those parents beyond snooping stalkers.

I've been watching all the episodes in a row and I like some of the actors /characters more than others. Matt was fairly consistent and I really liked him. Same with Eric--what a great father. It is refreshing to see abstinence preached instead of everyone rolling into bed on first dates, like most other TV shows. No one is perfect-- that's true even with moral people. Just because you try to live a moral life doesn't mean you always succeed. Id rather my children--if I have any--watched this program than most of the crap and even animated series on TV today. Keep Modern Family. Give me the Camdens. True most families aren't like the Camdens but that doesn't mean the world wouldn't be a better place if they were.