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Life As We Know It starring Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel & Josh Lucas

Posted on January 28, 2011 Written by ripitup

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Life As We Know It starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel
Life As We Know It starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.

Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a gorgeous, fun-loving guy who works as a technical director at a broadcast network. And he just loves women way too much to commit to any one of them.

Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) owns and runs her own pastry shop where she cooks everything herself. She is much more emotional and romantic compared to Messer. And the only thing these two have in common are mutual best friends Alison and Peter (Christina Hendricks and Hayes MacArthur), who are in a serious relationship and they think it was a good idea for Eric and Holly to meet and hook up.

Unfortunately, Eric and Holly detest each other and can’t even complete one date. Both would be glad to never see the other one again but Alison and Peter get married and start a family- the big house and a kid named Sophie included. Of course being their best friends, Eric and Holly spend a lot more time together than they would like- being Sophie’s godparents and all.

But when both Alison and Peter die in a car crash, not liking each other becomes the least of their problems. Messer and Holly find out that they were picked as Sophie’s guardians. While neither is sure they can handle it, it looks like they’re Sophie’s best option. So this is where the story really begins- when they move in to their friends’ house and try to adjust their lives – work and private- around Sophie. Of course they need to convince themselves and the social worker (Sarah Burns) that they can handle it.. Throw in Messer being a chick magnet and the handsome doctor Sam (Josh Lucas) interested in Holly and their lives as they know it had never been so complicated…

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I wasn’t looking forward to see Life As We Know It at first. I thought it was going to be annoying mushy and predictable. And while it was predictable, it was never annoying. It was a bittersweet, emotional film that focused more on how the unlikely “parents” tried, and then learned to be parents than the relationship between the two leads. Sure, there will be romance at some point. But come on- you know that you don’t cast Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl as the two leads and not make their characters hook up.

But the best part of the film is that it tells a familiar tale in such a fun and sincere way that it makes it really easy to identify with Holly and Messer as they try their best to take care of Sophie, find a way to get along and cope with their friends’ deaths.

And if you have a problem with Heigl’s comedic abilities, worry not. While there are funny moments, this is not exactly a comedic role.

Lovely film. It won’t change your life. It won’t impress you much. But it really might put a smile on your face.

Directed by Greg Berlanti. Written by Ian Deitchman & Kristin Rusk Robinson. Currently rated at 6 on IMDB.

Fun notes:

– Sophie is played by real life triplet sisters Alexis, Brynn & Brooke Clagett.
– Sarah Burns once again co-stars in a neurotic role. You might remember her as Rashida Jones’ best friend who totally freaked Jason Segel out in the comedy I Love You, Man.

Favorite Scene:

Right before and during the baby’s first steps. Messer and Holly’s reactions are hilarious and so is the baby.

 

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When in Rome starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel

Posted on June 5, 2010 Written by ripitup

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When In Rome starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel.
When In Rome starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel. Image from: http://www.torrentavi.com

Beth (Kristen Bell) is a young and successful curator in New York. She’s had terrible luck with love, having been dumped by Brady (a cameo by Lee Pace) and all. So she is skeptical when her sister Joan (Alexis Dziena) tells her that she is marrying an Italian guy called Umberto (Luca Calvani), whom she practically just met. But of course in the name of being a supportive sister, she persuades her tough boss (Anjelica Huston) that she will be to and back from the wedding (in Rome) in 48 hours.

But at the wedding, she meets the handsome best man Nick (Josh Duhamel). He is handsome, sweet,funny and just as work-oriented. She thinks she might have some luck after all but after she ends up being disappointed, she gets drunk and does something weird. She picks up 5 coins from the fountain of love. And the moment she does, 5 men- 1 Italian painter and 4 Americans: a magician, a much older businessman, a model in love with himself and Nick are smitten with her. But then again,Nick was already smitten.

So the rest of the story takes us back to New York, where Beth tries to continues to resume her life. But while Nick pursues her like a normal boy with a crush, the other 4 are acting like deranged and love-struck stalkers. Soon Beth finds out that something “supernatural” is at work. The hard thing is, when will she have the time to sort it? She’s too busy with her work, falling in love with Nick and trying to escape from the mad quadruplet…

The “Italian” painter is played by Will Arnett. Jon Heder (played the “righteous” psychic in Just Like Heaven) plays the weird magician, Danny De Vito plays the sausage king and Dax Shepard plays the model. Now, the cast is fine. I mean even Beth’s father is someone you might know: Don Johnson. Lee Pace makes a cameo…The premise is OK. It’s just that the story and the situations and most interactions are too silly for their own good. When the men are under the spell, they act like a combination of Jeff from The Coupling (Coupling UK) and Jim Carrey’s Cable- that nutty, that challenged yet not funny. Yes, Jeff was hilarious in Coupling. But here are we have 4 worse-than-Jeff suitors and one really clumsy hunk.

The movie is not bad. It is just not really good either. It is completely harmless. It will generate some laughs and will entertain most of the time. But something is missing. Sometimes it makes you laugh and sometimes it just makes you cringe. But I am not saying you should absolutely stay away from it. It is very light. I like Kristen Bell . By now, I think people mostly heard of Josh Duhamel. He starred in the tv show Las Vegas, appeared in The Transformers movies and got married to Fergie. I don’t think any movie will hurt his celebrity status now…

5.1 on IMDB. I do have to agree. I expected something better. I wish Lee Pace appeared more than just for a couple of minutes. Seriously. Someone really should find another agent for this guy. So,  see to watch a great wedding place, Rome and New York all in one. My favorite part of the movie is the dancing sequence at the end credits.

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