It is hard enough to make a comedy where just one of the themes is someone cheating on and leaving his or her spouse, but utterly impossible if that is the only theme. How is that remotely funny to begin with? It is not even fun or funny in a dry, grim sort of way.
Piper Perabo's brief internal struggle with deciding to leave her husband for her lesbian lover whom she has more or less just met is overcome with as much difficulty as a runner tearing through the tape at the finishing line. And all of this is rectified with such ease and no hard feelings whatsoever. I am not making any moral judgments, but I found that appalling rather than funny.
Piper Perabo once again wields her earnest pouting that is supposed to be cute throughout this movie. So nauseating; please try other emotions.
In such an odd, extreme situation as was presented in the movie, I would have expected at least one person to have gone stark raving mad. That, at least, would have presented a pretext on which to base comedy. But as it is, it's as if we are being asked to laugh as someone is cruelly murdered, while the victim smiles and says "Jolly good show".
Late night cable is full of soft-core B-movies about wives turning to lesbianism that are more compelling than this movie.
Piper Perabo's brief internal struggle with deciding to leave her husband for her lesbian lover whom she has more or less just met is overcome with as much difficulty as a runner tearing through the tape at the finishing line. And all of this is rectified with such ease and no hard feelings whatsoever. I am not making any moral judgments, but I found that appalling rather than funny.
Piper Perabo once again wields her earnest pouting that is supposed to be cute throughout this movie. So nauseating; please try other emotions.
In such an odd, extreme situation as was presented in the movie, I would have expected at least one person to have gone stark raving mad. That, at least, would have presented a pretext on which to base comedy. But as it is, it's as if we are being asked to laugh as someone is cruelly murdered, while the victim smiles and says "Jolly good show".
Late night cable is full of soft-core B-movies about wives turning to lesbianism that are more compelling than this movie.
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