Poor, plotless, pouty, poop

Rating: 3/10 (25 October 2000)

I saw this film last night. It was a toss-up between this and "What Lies Beneath", but the final choice came from my mates who said that "What lies.." would be a film where some old farts try to act young - which is quite justified for Harrison, but Michelle?? Nah. Anyway, maybe I expect to much from films nowadays - they seem to be thinking up new adorable ideas which are both romantic, funny and interesting, so I thought this was going to thrill me with some more crazy innovative stuff. But, I'm afraid not. They seem to have cut this down to a sequence of little "nice" moments which don't fit together very well, so the result hardly involves at all. The script wasn't funny (apart from the occasional quip by John Goodman), and the ideas upon which the film were based were silly and not-very-clever-at-all. A nice idea, done many times, but still nice - but it was rubbish (couldn't think of any clever adjectives there). Oh well. Â£5 down the drain, at least I don't live in London where it would have been twice that!