Saving Silverman is just about as dumb a slapstick romantic comedy as you can imagine. In a good way, that is. It is a thin line between dopey-dull and winningly cartoonish, a line that Saving Silverman treads pretty skillfully, though not all the time. That's before Neil Diamond shows up to help save the day. Not for a second.
Pure goof is the rule and the movie works best when it rigorously toes the nutball line.
Things slow down noticeably whenever the action drifts in the direction of sincere romance. Subscribe to Cincinnati's Entertainment Newsletter . The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.