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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Unpredictable, sure, but un-realistic...., 20 Aug 2003
I get the distinct feeling that my fellow reviewers are either fans of the teen movies that are unfortunatly really big right now, that they're teenagers who fancy either character or they watched a completely different film to me.Admittedly this is American humour, and I've never really got on with it, but I should have laughed at this "comedy" at least once! Let's start at the beginning....the opening sequence shows the two love-birds back from their honeymoon, and they are quite obviously not on the best terms with each other...fair enough, I guess married life isn't going so well...but what happens next is unrealistic and so unlikely I just shook my head. They were walking through the airport and they were doing lots of little tricks on each other just to annoy each other still further. Now...if I'd fallen out with my wife I wouldn't have been looking at her, let alone, pushing her so she knocks someone's coffee all over her, and then even pushing each other down the airport stairs! Dire. The acting is average, and if I'm honest the guy in the film does have a funny voice and he does express things in a funny way, but often overdoes it way too much. And his confrontation with the owner of a very high class french hotel where they are supposed to be staying after a very unfunny scene where the guy tries to put an American plug into a French socket (typical...) is just plain stupid. No-one reacts like that, even in the dopiest of films. The actress, Brittany whatevershe'scalled is just plain poor. Ok, so this is supposed to be something you don't take seriously, fair enough. But it just isn't funny. Even the ending speech where the guy tries to get his wife back by giving a little speech through her rich father's intercom on the gate, is unmoving and if anything, predictable. It's been done time and time again. I'm not going to totally blow out this film, it does have a very good performance by the films best actor. That being the dog owned by Britanny whatshernames character...and it provided the only laugh of the film for me in that once scene. Inevitably, this is angled at a purely American market, and for people who are fans of stupid, dippy American films. Oh and for people who just want something that's not difficult to take in too. Enjoy it those with American minds... 0.5 stars.
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