RomCom. Despite its failings this movie made me laugh out loud multiple times and there are many things to love in it. Jude Law for one plus Kate Winslet and Eli Wallach for two more. Even the two children are wonderfully sweet without any sickly after taste.
The problems come with the two American leads; Cameron Diaz and Jack Black. The early scenes with Cameron just suck and I’m not sure if it’s her performance and/or the script but luckily things improve and by the end she’s an integral part of the movie’s warm vibe. As for Mr Black, WTF? Pardon my french but what else can I say? This has got to be the oddest piece of casting, I’ve seen, in forever. I have no clue what he’s doing in this movie, (he brought money to the table?) and there are times when his face is so plastic that I suspected he’d been hitting the botox with gay abandon.
Probably a rental, more than a big screen experience, its a fun piece of popcorn for a date.
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