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Was it really a good idea to pack the cast with people who look like Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Alba in this movie? Part of the reason why Love Actually and (more to the point) the quirkier and more poignant Short Cuts were so successful is that they leavened the beautiful people with some people who look relatively normal, and with whose problems you can sympathize. Here, everyone in the movie is astoundingly good-looking, they all seem pretty prosperous, and the only bad things that happen to them are comically unsuccessful relationships, as when Ashton Kutcher proposes to Jessica Alba and she decides to leave him the same day. Boo frickin' hoo, as my teenage daughter would say in one of her more trucculent moods. Otherwise, an agreeably painless way of spending a couple of hours. Nice stories, pleasingly interwoven. Some good jokes, tending more to wry smiles than pant-wetting belly laughs, but quite witty. The surprise ending did make me burst into tears but, dear readers, it doesn't take much. Recommended if what you're after is undemanding entertainment. Andrea Hopkins (DI Reviewer), 16/02/10 |
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