More comedy less romance

Rating: 5/10 (12 February 2005)

Upon renting this movie, I thought it was going to be in the nature of your prototypical cleverly crafted Hugh Grant esquire English romantic comedy. Instead I was treated too much tennis, a complete and utter lack of what seemed to be anything funny, and a romance that seemed to blossom faster than a speeding bullet. I gave this movie a 5 simply because I'm a sucker for the old underdog sports movies, but please when somethings called a romantic comedy, could we please get a little more comedy? Not to mention I thought they did a horrible job of making us feel anything for Kirsten Dunst character. She to me at least seemed like the typical stuck up sexy young athlete who likes too have way too much fun. I enjoyed the male lead, but I still didn't find his story all that compelling. It all just seemed to come a little too easy and of course they went with the overloaded mega happy ending.