An average movie

I had some rather low expectations about this movie but since I have a weak spot for Jennifer Anniston and Paul Rudd, I still wanted to check it out. Basically, it is one of those ill-advised romantic comedies which tries to convince you that if a gay man or woman gets close enough with a very hot individual from the other sex, they will eventually go straight. Of course, in this case, the gay guy eventually remains gay but they toy with this concept during the whole movie. So, I’m not a huge fan of those stories and this one was especially poorly written and contrived. Indeed, even though the running time was under the two hours, it felt more like three hours. Jennifer Anniston, still in ‘Friends’ back in those days, was quite charming but she pretty much gave her usual performance. On the other hand, I thought that Paul Rudd was actually pretty good as he tried really hard to make his character convincing even though he was not helped by the weak script. A part from them, there were just way to many 2nd characters, a few of them interesting but most of them rather tedious. One of those exceptions was the character played Nigel Hawthorne. Such a fine actor, such a fine performance and such a waste of time for him to even bother showing up for such a short screen time. To conclude, it was not really awful, there were here and there a few good ideas but, all in all, it was a long, boring and misguided romantic comedy and I don’t think it is worth a look, even if you like the genre.

5/10