Even with Kate Winslet whom I absolutely love, it was annoying!

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2007)

Okay, there were just to many plot holes (would Graham's daughters actually have individual cellphones at that age? Would their aunt Iris never had visited the inside of their tent? How was the car able to return to the house to pick Amanda up when it couldn't drop her off there in the first place? Just to mention a few), too many factual errors(Cary Grant was from Bristol not Surrey, would Iris have actually told Jasper she was going on vacation? When indeed us Brits say Holiday? Amanda running in the snow with her high heels??? just to mention a few) and to add to all of that Cameron Diaz was in it. Ugh! She was so annoying! As were all her scenes. I don't know why the director even cast her in this, she totally ruined an otherwise passable film.
The plot revolves two women Iris(Kate Winslet) and Amanda(a hyperactive Cameron Diaz), the former has just be jilted by her long-time mostly unrequited love Jasper (played by Winslet's one time real life boyfriend Rufus Sewell) and the latter was cheated on by her live in love (played by Ed Burns).
A suicidal Iris decides that rather than killing herself, she might as well put her house up for a home swap and go wherever the lucky swapper swaps with her. Amanda, throws her cheating lover out, goes online to search for an attractive vacation packet and finds Iris's English cottage which instantly attracts her. She gets in touch with Iris and through a series of instant messages, they agree to swap houses. Iris will go to Amanda's mansion in Los Angeles and Amanda would get to go to Iris's English home in Surrey.
Upon arriving in America, Iris is mesmerised by the entire atmosphere of Los Angeles and is shocked to find out that she has swapped lives with a very famous and not to mention rich woman. Amanda on the other hand is devastated when she arrives in the murky village where Iris's cottage is located and has quite an adventure getting there to begin with.
The two women then begin to make the most of the two-week life swap they have just embarked on. In the process, Amanda meets Iris's brother Graham and falls in love with him, while Iris meets Amanda's co-worker Miles(played by Jack Black) with whom she falls in love. But all of this is not without trials and tribulations. Eli Wallach co-stars as the delightful Arthur, Amanda's neighbour whom Iris forges a strong friendship with.
Perhaps most odd are the cameos by Lindsay Lohan and James Franco as action heroes in a movie within the movie. Blink and you'll miss a cameo by Dustin Hoffman too. Generally, this film would seriously have been cool had it not been for Cameron Diaz's over-confidence and obnoxiousness.