lots of fun--but about that chef-boyfriend

Rating: 7/10 (30 July 2006)

So. I thought the movie was lots of fun (and omigod, the CLOTHES!) (and how fabulous was Meryl Streep!) (and Stanley Tucci is just absolutely my hero). I did thing Anne Hathaway was maybe a little bit too old to be playing a brand-new college graduate, but I can see how it would have been difficult to find an ingenue type of the appropriate age to play the role--I mean, can you see Lindsay Lohan pulling this off with any credibility? But I did have a tiny problem with the portrayal of the chef-boyfriend. And the scene when I saw the movie in Manhattan was something else--in a pretty fab way. I won't say more here for fear of spoiling, but check out my post on aliceinnewyorkland.blogspot.com--it's called "Friday Night at the Movies (in which Our Heroine Contemplates Fashion and Jarlsberg)".