get out of here with this cute, melodramatic garbage

Rating: 4/10 (12 November 2005)

Whenever I rate a movie, I base it on two things. One, I objectively judge the quality level of the movie (story arc, characters, acting), and two, I give the score a personal curve based on how much I personally liked the movie. OK I didn't like this.
First of all, objectively judging the quality of the movie, it doesn't seem that bad. It has pretty rounded out characters and plot, IF you're into this sort of story, which I'm not. Actually I couldn't stomach it. To me it was too cute and irrelevant. I had to constantly force myself to not turn this movie off.
With no drama in this film, I found myself just indifferently observing the emotional journey of Large and his new friend Sam, two people I don't really care about, although I liked Natalie Portman's charisma. I had zero interest in watching two people and their growing relationship with the only payoff being they fall in love. So what? All I thought about constantly while watching this movie was how little I cared about these two people in their little world, dealing with their little problems, and their little romance. Whatever, who cares. NEXT.