Slow, Oddly Directed, Painful to Watch

Rating: 2/10 (17 September 2006)

The movie is strangely (but not interestingly directed) and is like someone telling a two hour joke with horrible build up and a bearable punchline. There are a few (literally) running gags in the film and Kinnear holds his own as well as some of the acting, but i found the dialogue unbearable, the pace morbidly slow and the punctuation enigmatic. My date happened to like it though, and it came highly recommended to her, but when I asked her what the point of the film was she told me i don't know several times. I guess its an attempt to ridicule the jon benet ramsey types of pageants and it makes that point, but is there any sane person out there who already doesn't think those things are a joke? I will give props to miss California though, she was easy to watch.