Typical yet somewhat Immaginative Hollywood Chic-Flic

Rating: 6/10 (11 December 2006)

Another Hollywood cliché story about English Writers, Hollywood Movie Trailer Producers, Music Composers ... does this sound like ANYBODY you can relate to !? The writer, Nancy Myers (of Private Benjamin fame), should go back to her lap-top, and develop a story with REAL people ...
I must admit that the home swap was a unique twist, but avoided much of the nuances of actually executing a home-swap vacation (Diaz' house was way too extravagant to swap for an English cottage)
Jack Black plays an anti-thesis to his character in Shallow Hall - he gets paired up with the delicious Kate Winslet instead of a morbidly obese Gweneth Paltrow. It's a definite stretch for him in this role - thus making the few romantic scenes between him and Kate uncomfortable to watch. You'd think he would have lost that Tanaeceaous/Nacho Libre gut, but I guess "that's just him"...
Cameron Diaz and Jude Law's characters aren't even worth writing about - cliché all the way.
The most evolved relationship in the movie is that between Winslet and Wallach's characters, although once again, even this relationship is ALL Hollywood.
See it, but don't expect it to change your life.