Why do you guys like (care) about these cloying losers?

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2003)

whatever the film's merits, and the Unemployed Critic gave this a surprising 10, it's very hard to feel any sympathy for people living great lives, such as Murray's character, his new gorgeous (no other way to describe her at all) young friend, or for that matter Sofia or Francis Coppola who manage to find ways to be depressed and all upset about life's imperfections. Does that include you? This film was a major disappointment and I suspect is sung from Sofia to her chorus. Lesser people living lesser lives but finding more out of it than these compulsive depressives will not find this film enlightening or entertaining. It's a failure, not a success. Like the characters. They should go away.
and BTW, the casting for the young photographer was pathetic with a
capital "P". His character was never believable for one single second. No way a gorgeous woman falls for an undisguised nerd like that. That part required a handsome, charismatic young man who, absorbed with himself, distances himself from his beautiful wife, unaware because of his self-absorption. This nerd was unspeakable. No credible way this
marriage ever happened in the first place. My guess is Sofia, who although Hollywood royalty, dated many nerds in her time precisely because her talent exceeds her looks by miles and miles, just thinks that other women are also attracted to this kind of guy. Oh yeah, sure.