And now for something completely different

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2004)

It is quite ammusing to read the comments written by people about this movie, and also a nice surprise to see that with all of the hate for it, it still manages to get into the top 200. In my opinion this film was great, because unlike with all the other romantic comedies (in my opinion it is not really a romantic comedy, but i can see how it can be seen as one), this one knows what it is doing. It's not a movie that can be enjoyed by everyone, or always. Its quality seriously changes depending on the mood you are in, and most of the times, when you cannot in anyway relate to the emotion, the film is booring and slow. But if the film has meaning its great. It seems that for a film such as this one people expected to get more immature humour, as is typically associated with romantic comedies. You can't expect two people who are having problems with their marriages to go around joking the whole time. Its not racist in any way (matrixfighter's comments), it only attempts shows Tokyo the way it actually is (Japan's younger generation is eccentric) and you are contradicting yourself when you say johanson's character is ignorant if all she does is cultural tourism. The acting is great, and all the humour that is there is adult because you have to be able to understand the situation and I highly doubt that anyone under 18 could like this movie at all.