Shaaaaaaaallow

Rating: 2/10 (19 October 2007)

What shallow poor dialogs. One would expect more interesting input from a girl (Charlotte/Scarlett) with an alleged degree in.. Philosophy it was?
Murray keeps a poker-face all through the movie, which may be commendable for some, but not worth an Oscar. His face in the Oscar Ceremony when he found out he was not the winner *was* worth an Oscar, though. What a childish reaction; not very smart of him.
I remember there was a funny gag: the Japanase man giving instructions in Japanese during the shooting of the whisky TV ad. However, after repeating same gag several times it lost its effectiveness, like happens to all jokes.
When the protagonists part I didn't sympathise with them in the least because there was so little going on between them to sympathise with.
In short: this movie/script lacks interesting dialogs between Bob/Murray & Charlotte/Johanson. Maybe that was the idea: to present us two ordinary persons who meet in a hotel in Tokio and start talking trivialities. But I'm afraid it was just an alibi to hide sheer laziness on the part of the scriptwriter to create enticing dialogs.
One just has to review the 'Quote' section here. Oh my.. if those are the best quotes...