A long tiresome cliché.

Rating: 4/10 (3 July 2007)

While Meryl Streep's performance was as good as always, the lack of plot and shallow character development made this no more than a mildly entertaining movie. It was one long cliché and as predictable as a sunrise. In the first ten minutes, I mentioned to my wife how I thought it would develop. As it drew to a welcome conclusion she observed that I had predicted perfectly.
The extreme makeover scenes were done better by Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine in Miss Congeniality. The metamorphosis was much more dramatic. (Of course, this is one of the clichés.)
Adrian Grenier's character was so under-developed that he barely existed in the film. There was so little content about their relationship, that I hardly saw it as motivation for her to quit her job.