Grade:  B

Director:  Donald Petrie		Released:  February 2003
Writer:  Too many people to list		MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Players:  Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Adam Goldberg		Running time:  116 minutes

Ratings System

There's no reason I should like this film.  The premise is contrived, the most obvious of actors are cast for the leads, sickly-sweet romantic comedies are played, yet ... somehow, I liked this movie.  I feel embarrassed writing that.

What can I say?  It made me laugh.  It works.  It's lightweight fluff for sure, maybe I was just in the right mood today, I don't know, but it entertained me, and I'd watch it again if it happened to be on.

I do have to admit that the ending is lame.  Inevitably in a movie like this there must be the big revelation when all deceit comes to light.  Then the characters go through the usual run-away and chase sequence because they really love each other but can't bear to stay together because of the contrivances of the script ... on and on ... blah, blah, blah.

- crocoPuffs