Decent chick flick has its moments

Rating: 6/10 (18 April 2007)

Winslet plays the Bridget Jones character, Diaz the Diane Lane part in story of two jilted women trading houses for the Christmas vacation. Kate finds some rewarding relationships in LA, including Black, while Diaz gets involved with Winslet's brother Law in Merry Old. I'm not buying Winslet's deal with Black, it doesn't feel right. Her friendship with Wallach is much more interesting but gets short shrift as the movie develops. Winslet's character also overdoes the victim stuff enough to turn off any regular guy, the girls might enjoy it. Diaz and Law have an interesting fling at first but there's way too many starts and stops. This worked okay for an hour or so but had no place interesting to go after that.