Cheer up, at least this one doesn't have any elves in it!

Rating: 2/10 (8 March 2004)

Not much happens onscreen.
Offscreen, the film gets a screenwriting Oscar. How?

According to the posting guidelines, you can't post a plot spoiler without giving warning.
How am I supposed to interpret that here, as there isn't a whole lot of plot to spoil - without Scarlett Johansson's knees and Bill Murray's charm, there wouldn't be much of a movie at all.
I was asked to summarise the plot of the film and, after I'd said "Bill Murray plays a big Hollywood star who goes to Japan to make a whisky commercial", I dried up. That's pretty much all there is too it (apart from a lot of tracking shots of Miss Johansson's knees).
There's a rumour going around that, in the scene where an interpreter has to translate the photographer's instructions to Murray (and speaks one word to him for every ten spoken to her), the photographer is actually using the vilest, crudest language possible.
I hope that this is not another Internet Legend, as it would be the most interesting thing about the whole film.