All meringue, no pie. A pretentious and tiresome piece of narcissistic fluff, by some self-absorbed Hollywood players

Rating: 3/10 (9 June 2005)

This is narcissistic fluff. I suspect this movie is trying to imitate some of the famous 'couples movies' from the 1930s and 1940s, such as the Nick and Nora Charles characters in the 'Thin Man' series, and Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in 'Bringing Up Baby'. Sorry, but NO way are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie anywhere near the class of Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn!
Nothing against Brad and Angelina Thingy personally. The fact that those actors have their own lives, and the right to pursue their professions in whatever way they see fit is not lost on me. God bless 'em! Let them go for it. But surely, after having cringed my way through several of their movies in the past, I should have learned my lesson and stayed well away from any movie they are starring in.
Think of the Danny Divito 1989 movie 'War of the Roses', which was vicious and rather ugly, when you consider it. Then imagine that movie having the sheer delusion that it could be one of the William Powell and Myrna Loy detective couple movies, or Grant and Hepburn. Sort of sad, really. A weird and sick blend of marital cutesy and really gross and hurtful violence.
This flick is offensive. It is stupid, it is silly and worst of all, it is guilty of taking itself, even in its alleged whimsy and spoofiness, WAY too seriously. It might be OK viewed on DVD at home, whilst drunk. Otherwise, this fluffy piece of crap is all meringue, and no pie.