In True Nancy Meyers's Form

Rating: 4/10 (17 July 2007)

Given that this was not Nancy Meyers's first movie to have written, directed, and produced I was hoping for something a little more appealing. I thought the goofy French soundtrack of Something's Gotta Give was just part of the Bohemian fabric. I now know that this is simply Meyers's style where mature adults run around acting like rabbits.
Meyers starts with Kate Winslet pining away in her hopelessly quaint and romantic London cottage for a former/current, now-engaged-to-someone-else lover. Cameron Diaz on the other hand kicks her lover out of her LA mansion because he was humping his secretary. The magic to resolve their guy problems is swapping houses for the Christmas holidays.
What follows is not much different although I was surprised they didn't swap lovers as well. A mere six hours in London and Diaz is copulating with the widowed Jude Law, who despite his vulnerable state can't keep his pants on even in his sister's house. Winslet pines away in LA, but we know she will eventually copulate with Jack Black.
Such an vapid plot leads one to conclude that Meyer's solution to infidelity, which everyone seems to suffer from with the exception of Law, is finding someone else to hump, even if you have to travel half way across the globe.