Very Predictable, Easily Forgettable

Rating: 4/10 (14 December 2006)

Just not a very good movie.
Amanda (Cameron Diaz) and Iris (Kate Winslett) are two completely different people. Iris is a writer for a newspaper in England and Amanda is a movie trailer maker from Los Angeles.
They decide to switch homes for the holidays and get away from their man problems in their hometowns.
From the commercials and trailer, we are led to believe that Amanda goes to England and falls for Graham (Jude Law) and Iris goes to Americas and falls in love with Miles (Jack Black) And while Amanda does rapidly develop a relationship with Graham, there never really seems to be anything there with Iris and Miles except for that they both are two pitiful push-overs who are really not that likable.
Amanda, Graham and Iris are all not likable for various reasons and while Miles is slightly likable, Jack Black is insanely unbelievable in his role as the sweet and kind pushover who wallows in his sorrow over constantly being taken advantage of.
The plot has been done over and over again on poor TV Christmas specials about love at the holidays. Nothing original and nothing really interesting.
I don't know...maybe it's because I'm a guy and this is more of a girls movie, but it was pretty bad.
Oh well...
4/10