Product: The Next Best Thing (2000)
Rating: 1.0
Pa-thet-ic! There is so much wrong with this movie.
This movie is SO bad, it's almost painful to watch. Full of cliches, despite trying to be "edgy" with the gay issues and the whole yoga thing. Madonna's acting is so poor, probably because she was concentrating so veddy hard on trying to enunciate and use British inflections: "Are you asking me on a date?" UGH!! Even her hair is gross-looking. Everything about her distracts from the film, and her character comes off as being abrasive. Rupert Everett and Benjamin Bratt are both incredibly charming and attractive, but, alas, they cannot save the day, as there is only one scene in which they play with Madonna not speaking in the background. The jump from the cliched birthing scene to the child being five years old; and then the nifty written story tie-up just before the credits roll -- it is incredibly bad. The only thing I can say is that it bombed at the box office, and is therefore less offensive, as that should tell Madonna that even with her fan base, the general public is not made up of fools.