actually, not quite bad!

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 2004)

Despite some clumsy tennis action shots at the beginning, the match scenes are actually quite good! Paul Bettany is charming, very believable. Kirsten Dunst (who is definitely not my favorite actress) is casted well as a fanatic tennis player who wants nothing but win. But the fact that she falls (so rapidly) for this losing player is strange... just as strange as seeing the professional tennis players drink beers, stay up late, eat very greasy food etc.
Characters around the main persons are rather flat; Lizzy Bradbury's father changes his mind a bit too quickly, and the heroes' parents fall in love again like a shift of the wind.
The humor is a bit too American, shame. A more British touch to it would match the subject better.
And still, the whole thing was quite entertaining!