Interesting and Entertaining with a brilliant turn from Emma Thompson

Rating: Null/10 (24 December 2008)

I can't say that this film is flawless or that is will change your life or redefine your standards of film. It is however, a wonderful way to spend 2 hours.
The screenplay is witty and hilarious. Its throws you the kind of line you can't help but chuckle despite its stupidity at one minute and the kind of joke it takes you several moments to get the next.
Plus, the film almost entirely cliché-free. You have never watched a movie that was " like this." The performances are not Oscar caliber, but they are great. Will Ferrel plays again type here and does well, playing everything decidedly straight. Dustin Hoffmann is perfect and has one of my favorite movie lines ever, involving pancakes. Maggie Gyllenhaal is lovely and underrated as always.
But the real performance that makes the movie is from Emma Thompson. She is one of these actress's that is hardly recognizable from role to role, and she disappears effortlessly into Karen Eiffel's skin. I just loved this character. And Queen Latifah makes the perfect straight-man for her.
All and all, Emma Thompson and a great screenplay make this one i would watch over and over again.