Good film, brilliant book - almost completely different from each other!!

Rating: 5/10 (19 January 2008)

After reading the book I was excited there was a film coming out on it. The book was so powerful i was expecting the same for the movie. When I was watching it the first 15 minutes of the film I was really fed up but soon realised the film was much different from the book.
Some of the characters and themes of the book is the opposite of what Ahern was going for in the book (ie talking about the morality of the notes), but it worked for the film. The only similarities between the book and film is the characters' names, and that Gerry dies. The additional Ireland holiday was brilliant and made me want to visit it, however the events in the book was simply classic and i do feel they should have kept more to the book.
It was a good film, easy watching, funny, predictable - a typical chick film. I love the role of the mum in the film but once again it is predictable. Lisa Kudrow is fantastic, they changed Denises' character well. I absolutely hated the character of Daniel, he was just so different and annoying!!However, I love the book, there's just so much more to the story, and would recommend people to read it as it is just so different; powerful, emotional, hilarious yet a tear-jerker too.
Overall, I enjoyed the movie but it took me a while to get into it. But I do think that the movie is disrespectful to the book, as they are so different yet when the movie starts it says based on the book, i think inspired would be a better word for it.