The girl you couldn't see

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2008)

Marky Mark's a school teacher, and he's teaching at a school Ferris Bueller's depressed friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) is the principal of. With a setting like that, you really don't need supernatural suicides for most people to go "Huh?". But M. Night Shyamalan wouldn't be M. Night Shyamalan if he didn't bring on the mumbo jumbo anyway. But then it really isn't as ludicrous as some of his earlier works. Sort of "War of the Worlds" meets "I am Legend". Okay, that doesn't sound so hot. But there's always Zooey Deschanel, pale and gorgeous, like a really pretty ghost. I first noticed her in "Hitchhiker's Guide", thoroughly enjoyed her performance as Sarah Jessica Parker's quirky sidekick in "Failure to Launch", and totally adored her in "The Go-Getter". This time round, it's the short scene in which she takes the pregnancy that makes the movie. And this is when you think the credits are about to roll. If I were her, I'd put it on my show reel. But of course she doesn't need one anymore. She's the girl who wasn't me.