Neither funny nor heartwarming

Rating: 3/10 (25 January 2008)

When it was trying to be funny, I wasn't laughing, and when it was trying to be serious, I wasn't buying it. It's adeptly directed and acted, but the gimmicky language and unbelievable characters don't make the story interesting, involving, or realistic. I wasn't moved by the climax, nor did I even really care what happened to the characters. I didn't think the third act redeemed the first 2/3, it just shifted the film from 'nearly unbearable to sit through' to 'incredibly bland and mediocre'. And the music was simply terrible. I thought the actors, by and large, did the best with what they had, but they couldn't rescue the film from its terrible screenplay.