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I Could Never Be Your Woman starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd

Posted on May 19, 2010 Written by ripitup

I Could Never Be Your Woman starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd. Funny, romantic and modern. Image from: http://www.quelapaseslindo.com.ar/

Rosie (Michelle Pfeiffer) is a 40-year-old single mother. She is a writer of a popular teen TV show. During the casting of a new character, she meets Adam (Paul Rudd). Adam is cute, really funny and talented. He gets the part. Things get complicated for Rosie when he asks her out. She can’t resist but all the while Mother Nature (Tracey Ullman) is doing her head in about how she is making a mistake and how she is too old for this guy. Despite Rosie’s concerns, Adam proves that he really likes her and that they are great together. But problems are a dime a dozen. Apart from her own concerns, Rosie’s horrible assistant Jeannie (Sarah Alexander) is doing her best to sabotage their relationship behind their backs. Will their romance survive?

OK, this is a romantic comedy so yeah, obviously the romance will survive. Both for the fans of romcoms, this is a great one to enjoy. If the movie title reminds you of the fun 90s songI could never be your woman by White Town, you are right. Its video remained with me long after MTV stopped playing the video. The song is appropriately played in the movie. All Michelle’s concerns about her age passes me by since well…she is gorgeous. Paul Rudd is one of the rare very cute and very funny actors. You might recall his collaborations with director Judd Apatow ( The 40-year-old Virgin, Knocked Up) , Clueless where he starred with he starred with Alicia Silverstone and of course Friends, where he played Phoebe’s boyfriend and then husband. They make a good team and the movie works. Mother Nature is really annoying but I’m guessing that’s what her part requires and I am a woman so yeah, I just want her to leave poor Rosie alone.

It is also fun to see English Sarah Alexander as an American bitch. She also has a part in Stardust as Michelle one of Michelle Pfeiffer’s witch friends. There is a chance you won’t recognize her. But Sarah is mostly recognized for her role in the hit comedy series Coupling (the original UK version).

Written and directed by Amy Heckerling in 2007,who also wrote and directed the very popular 90’s movie Clueless.She also wrote Who’s Talking series starring Kirstie Alley and John Travolte. Rated 6.1 on IMDB.

Favorite Lines:

Izzie (Rosie’s daughter): (on her maths homework) Mom, how do you make a positive number turn negative?

Rosie: Take away its Prozac and put it with a bunch of smaller numbers.

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Rosie: You have the job so it doesn’t matter but how old are you, really?

Adam: I’m like 32. Why ,how old are you?

Rosie: 37.

(Mother Nature spits her drink)

Later on on the date…

Rosie: I am not really 37.

Adam: How old are you?

Rosie: 38.

Adam: I’m actually 31.

Rosie: OK. (they kiss) 40.

Adam: 29.

Rosie: What happened to 30?

Adam: What happened to 39?

Rosie: You are not even in your 30s!

Adam: Neither are you.

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Nathan (Jon Lovitz): I don’t want you to do same mistakes with him that you made with me.I’m trying to be Bruce Willis-ey.

Adam: Which is weird because I’m trying to be Ashton. Which makes her Demi..

(boys go on about Demi)

Rosie: What are you talking about? I am not Demi, he is not Ashton and you are definitely not Bruce Willis!

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Overboard starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn

Posted on May 17, 2010 Written by ripitup

Overboard starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Image from: http://media.avclub.com

Joanna (Goldie Hawn) is a very rich and spoilt woman who is on a cruise on her own yacht, traveling with her equally spoilt husband (Edward Herrmann). She wants to have a closet built so she hires carpenter Dean (Kurt Russell). When she is not happy with his work, she doesn’t pay him and pisses him off. However Dean gets his chance at sweet revenge when Joanna has an accident. She has fallen overboard and is suffering from amnesia. She is in the hospital. So Dean goes to visit her, claiming she is her wife. Joanna has nowhere else to go.

However soon after Dean introduces her to the rest of his family (4 really naughty young children), she wishes he never found her. According to Dean, her name is Annie and she is a typical housewife. Anne’s life turns into living hell as the children are on the game with their father and make her chores harder than they already are. But Annie proves that she is tougher than anybody realized. And the hostility starts to turn into something else. She fights for the kids’ behalf and she even stands up to Dean on their behalf. The children start loving a woman around and Dean…well…he starts falling for “Annie”. “Annie” also falls for him. Dean can’t tell her the truth. With her encouragement, he starts a new business and his family seems complete. But surely, Annie’s memory can comeback any second.

This is a classic romantic comedy written by Leslie Dixon and directed by Pretty Woman and Valentine’s Day director Gary Marshall. Goldie Hawn’s mother is played by Katherine Helmond who you might remember from the sitcom Who’s The Boss? (1984-1992) where she played the hip and flirty mother or from the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond where she guest starred as Raymond’s mother-in-law.

I am calling it a classic because well…even the whole amnesia thing might sound overdone, it wasn’t that overdone in 1987. This is a really funny film that gets romantic at the right intervals and what might have come off as sappy is more than compensated by the laugh-out-loud comedy.

Plus, I really have a thing for the fun movies of the 80s and 90s and both Goldie and Kurt have been among my favorite actors and on &off-screen couples. They have been together since 1983. Goldie has made some really entertaining movies including Bird on a Wire with Mel Gibson. Her partner Kurt also starred alongside Mel Gibson in the movie Tequila Sunrise, also starring Michelle Pfeiffer.

The movie is rated 6.3 on IMDB. 7 from me. And yes, I am usually positively biased towards Kurt’s and Goldie’s movies. I grew up watching that stuff.

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The Bachelor starring Chris O’Donnell and Renée Zellweger

Posted on May 8, 2010 Written by ripitup

The Bachelor starring Chris O' Donnell Renée Zellweger. Made in 1999. Brace yourselves for something very romantic and very funny. Image from filmamerica.com

The opening credits start in wide open land with lots of horses running wild. Our narrator/lead character

Jimmy Shannon (Chris O’Donnell) starts his story by telling us that every man (in America) is Mustang (the horse, not the car) at heart. He is too. He is also a happy bachelor who loves dating a variety of women without having to think about getting married. One day he meets Anne (Renée Zellweger) and even though he is still not even dreaming about marriage, he is happy just being with that one women. After a year of bliss, his luck starts to change. All his friends have been getting married inevitably Anne uses the ever-dreaded word “future”. He is the only single guy left in his circle. He decides to do the inevitable and screws up big time. But then something even more dreadful happens- his grandfather dies and leaves him a $100 million. What’s dreadful about it? Jimmy needs to be married in a certain time frame, be married for at least 10 years and have 10 children. What the ****? “Poor” Jimmy proposes to Anne again, screwing up more time. Anne leaves town to visit her folks and Jimmy has no choice but visiting all his exes one by one, a highly diverse list of women who include a feminist, an over-bearing one, a cop, one who is all business, a stockbroker, an opera singer…

So Jimmy spends a lot of time proposing to one wrong woman after another and failing to be engaged, until his friend comes with a “brilliant” idea that’s very entertaining for us the audience and a total nightmare for Jimmy….

The Bachelor is a typical romantic comedy but I am saying it with love and affection. I really do like this movie. I love the idea, the actors, the scenes and the dialogue. Sure, as a modern woman I resent the idea of all men being portrayed as commitment-phobic and women crazy about marriage. I resent the idea that all women see marriage as bliss but men as a nightmare. It might be true for a lot of cases but hey times are changing a little. But who cares? The casting is perfect. If any other guy was giving you all the talk about Mustangs, a girl might be pissed. But hey, it is Chris O’ Donnell. One of the cutest and prettiest actors to date, he lights up the screen and even in his desperate moments, he doesn’t annoy you. He makes you laugh. Put an average guy in there and you would say “Oh, screw you, who would want to marry you, anyway?”. This is a romantic comedy meaning it is (unfortunately) targeted mostly at women and I am being honest.

Brooke Shields and Mariah Carey make very fun appearances. Even though I don’t like Mariah Carey at all, she was the perfect choice as the over-the-top opera singer.

It is a fun romcom with all the regular amount of cheesiness. But the funny bits are really funny and the romantic part is romantic. So if you like the genre, suspend your cynicism for the duration of the film and have fun.

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Something New starring Simon Baker

Posted on April 30, 2010 Written by ripitup

Something New starring Simon Baker and Sanaa Lathan. Image from: http://www.impawards.com/

When successful corporate lawyer Kenya ( Sanaa Lathan) is set up on a blind date, she is less than pleased to see that her date is Brian Kelly (Simon Baker). Not that Brian isn’t good-looking. He is. The problem? He is white. So Kenya doesn’t even give him a chance. But after a chance encounter and a situation she can’t get out of, she decides to hire Brian as a landscape architect for her garden. Even though she thinks they don’t have much in common, their personalities and taste seem to be opposite and she can’t look past the racial issues, she finds herself falling for Brian. Once she lets go, they start having a great relationship. But there will always be doubts (mostly racial) and prejudices on her part. This eventually drives them art. But then she meets Mark (Blair Underwood)-an ambitious black man also working in the corporate world. Obviously he is not without issues. But most importantly, he is not Brian…

The movie is a sweet little romance. I know it is labeled as a romcom but I don’t think it has many funny moments. It is as romantic as its supposed to be with all the right amount of complications and obstacles. It is fun and completely harmless but nothing to tell the home about really. 6.6 on IMDB. 6/10 from me. Well, obviously if you want me to rate according to the screen time and the beauty level of Simon Baker, than it is a 10/10. If you do like Baker, yeah- you should watch it. I enjoyed it. Plus, it was a fun change to see Simon in casual wear after watching him in suits all the time in The Mentalist.

Favorite Lines – Obviously, they came from Brian.

Kenya: I don’t do dogs.

Brian: Neither do I. We’re just friends.

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Brian: I take it you don’t do white guys.

Kenya: I just happen to prefer black men. It’s not a prejudice, it’s a preference.

Brian: Sure, it’s your preference to be prejudiced.

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Brian: I love you.

Kenya: I don’t know what to say.

Brian: Should I give you a hint?

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