Screwball comedy on routine

Rating: 5/10 (4 January 2007)

After 10 minutes you know how it will end. Well, maybe you knew it from the start. It's a little strange that this script brings you 2 hours and 15 minutes, because it's hardly fit for an hour.
But it's Kate Winslet's movie and you can certainly have her charisma for many days. Cameron Diaz is not bad, but has her obvious limitations which anyway is nothing to Jude Law's, who doesn't function in these kind of comedies. Eli Wallach is of course great, not just because he's over 90.
This is supposed to be the perfect first-date-movie. Maybe the daters should skip it and go to a restaurant instead. The Hollywood heritage of the 30s and 40s isn't handled in a nice way.