It is a film that embodies a group of people who face different challenges when their plane faces a problem during their flight to Paris. Now, three brilliant Brazilian women find themselves in a completely new and different place than usual, realizing that not all standards from Los Angeles have been exactly the same. It seems that they all decided to celebrate the city, which values women all the time.
Hot in Cleveland is a by-the-numbers sitcom with a couple of laughs, an inoffensive premise and four seasoned actresses who make the material much better than it is.
The show is unlikely to win Emmys but it is worth a few chuckles, spurred on by actresses in an age bracket not generally associated with leading roles on network sitcoms.
Hot is also an anomaly in the same way Golden Girls was. It's nice to see a show filled with great comedy actresses who are considered a bit, um, mature for the broadcast networks.
Hot in Cleveland [brings] 156 years of TV acting experience with them. It's not wasted. The sitcom is funny and fresh, and the actors appear to be having the time of their lives.
Even if [writer Suzanne] Martin's script were more golden than it is, it would still represent a step backward for actresses who, at any age, deserve better than this kind of stunt casting.
Hot in Cleveland... is a broad, Vaudeville-style sitcom where everything - story, characters, sets, sound engineering - is only there in service of the rat-a-tat of one-liners.
