Made For DVD

Rating: 1/10 (10 December 2006)

I'm not sure where to start. Have you ever spent $10 to suffer in your seat for two hours and twenty minutes while watching some of your favorite actors lose years of credibility acting in a film with a story that is written for people that have an IQ of 80 or below? That's what happened to me. The film is touted as a "romantic comedy". This was neither. There is nothing romantic about two single women with successful careers being portrayed as pathetic if they don't have "Mr. Right" in their lives. Additionally, no one was funny. Miles, played by Jack Black, who I think is brilliant, was not even close to funny. The painfully bad acting and spoon-fed dialogue between Cameron Diaz and Ed Burns in the first scene, two actors that I usually like and respect, set the tone for the movie which never changed. The premise of the story, the ridiculous time-lines, the painfully contrived dialogue, and unlikable characters, made this one of the worst films I have ever seen. This may be a good time for Nancy Meyers who wrote and directed this film to apologize for hurting the careers of some of Hollywood's most promising and established actors. This movie should have possibly been titled "The Recycled Hollywood Crap Holiday Movie".