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Yesterday, I wanted to watch something with my wife and after she rejected most of my suggestions, we finally settled down on this movie. Well, even though I think my wife did enjoy it, I was eventually amazed about how much I didn’t like the damned thing. First of all, sure, I am a guy but I want to point out that I have seen all the movies directed by Nancy Meyers and I more or less enjoyed all of them, even ‘The Holiday’ but I thought that this movie was just insufferable and I’m surprised that it was so well received when it was released. I mean, right from the start, you see this nice old guy spending the whole freaking day waiting for his boss to have a 2 mins chat with her and that was supposed to be funny? I thought it was just sad and humiliating. Then, when at last his boss finally decides to talk to him, he becomes her driver (wow, what an improvement…) . Eventually, through the whole damned thing, I was expecting De Niro to give some very insightful advise that would completely turn around her company or her life but, no, it never happened. Eventually, at what point did this character become an actual asset for this company? Never, at best, he became BFF with the boss, that’s it. Concerning Anne Hathaway’s character, it was not much better. Indeed, they tried to convince the viewers that it was a modern movie and, yet, it gave a very outdated view of a business woman who can’t juggle a successful job and her family. And the depiction of her husband was even worse… Indeed, it was apparently impossibly difficult for this guy to be rich, have a successful wife and take care of one little girl. I mean, seriously, while my mother was working full-time, my father raised me, my brother and my sister for more than 15 years without having ever a major mental breakdown. It is not very often that I see such a movie pretending to be modern when it is in fact terribly old-fashioned. At least, in spite of the rather abysmal material, Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway were not bad but I really had a hard time to care about the damned thing and I don’t think it is really worth a look.
5/10
