Product: The Next Best Thing (2000)
Rating: 5.0
A fun movie to watch--if you adore Madonna
I am one of the world's biggest Madonna fans (so I am biased, of course), and I think that this is a wonderful movie. My mother and I watched this video together and were quite touched by it. My mom is the kind of person that NEVER sits through an entire movie, so I was particularly shocked when she sat through every scene of this one with me. She even wanted to watch it a second time!The only flaw that I saw in the movie was some poorly written dialogue. There were parts that just didn't sound right somehow. A lot of people tried to blame Madonna and Rupert (and their alleged acting inabilities), but I think the script itself was the real problem. I think that Madonna did the best she could with this role.Madonna gets a lot of trash from people who say she can't act. I think that is crazy. She did a great job in Evita, Desperately Seeking Susan, Dick Tracy, A League of Their Own, Body of Evidence, and Who's that Girl...no matter what anyone else says! I just wish that she had a better sense of which scripts were good and which ones are duds. :-)