Up the Sandbox is a joyful mess -- a picture, full of sass and enthusiasm and comic strokes, that doesn’t seem to have discovered what it’s meant to be about.

[Streisand] does not give us a liberated woman, or even a woman working in some organized way toward liberation. Instead, she gives us a woman who feels free to be herself, no matter what anyone thinks.

It sounds wildly eccentric -- but it's clever and often very, very funny.

A Babs boo-boo.