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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:2
Rotten:25
Average Rating:4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Two young, upwardly mobile Angelenos lead separate lives destined to intersect--he's a standoffish architect and pathological liar looking out for number one, and she's a wistful, incurably... [More]
Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston
Director: Scott Winant
With its clotted script, art direction that's all splash and no style, and dialogue that's too nakedly calculated to facilitate identification), this tedious and confused movie points several characters in obvious directions.
The payoff, such as it is, is distressingly anticlimactic, and results in frustration.
It is so poorly executed that if you didn't know going in that these two were supposed to meet, you'd never figure out what the movie is about.
Here is the most tiresome and affected movie in many a moon, a 114-minute demonstration of the Idiot Plot, in which everything could be solved with a few well-chosen words that are never spoken.
Top CriticLike most episodic tales, some episodes are better than others; but even the good ones aren't as fully developed as they might be.
A tired piece of romantic cornball fare that harks back to a bygone era, the film is a badly conceived, poorly executed fairy tale guaranteed to make audiences squirm in their seats.
Top CriticThis film is as messy as its lead character Gwen's (Tripplehorn) personal life.
A big waste of time.
Winnie Holzman's screenplay is uneven.
Top CriticTripplehorn and McDermott are likable enough in their roles, but Holzman's precious, overwritten script gives them few genuinely honest moments.
Top CriticGraceless star Tripplehorn -- who's called upon to execute a painful series of pratfalls in a high-tech restaurant -- is not a natural comedian, and overall the movie is awkward and leaden.
Bad romantic comedies with sappy characters aren't always without merit, since we cynics can at least use them to further our conviction that love isn't worth the trouble. But this bad romantic comedy is merely bad.
When you combine the film's tedious length with questionable casting decisions (Parker disappoints, and Jennifer Aniston plays a surgeon(!?)) you get a fine mess that eventually redeems itself... just not all the way.
The fatal flaw comes with the casting of the romantic leads, and for once the problem isn't that they don't belong together. You're just not likely to care one way or the other.
With dialog like this why did the producers go forward with this project? The movie needs a rewrite and a new director.
This is a fluffy, delightful romantic comedy in the same vein as Sleepless in Seattle.
pure plastic, flat and transparent. All involved were all too obviously aiming for another ``Sleepless In Seattle,'' but what they've produced is a cinematic siesta.
The film's real irony is that Gwen and Nick are so annoying that they deserve each other.
Even if they never met, nothing about this movie would be different except the last two or three minutes. Not exactly a ringing example of great writing or involving direction.
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