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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Could have been better, 7 February 2006
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rkalla from United States
When a movie resorts to sidebars to explain the plot, especially as
much as this one does, it implies that the writer has gotten lazy with
his story development. A well-written movie could tie things together
without the self-consciously cute little blurbs. I mean, the blurbs
even tell the viewer right up front that this is a comedy -- in case
you were wondering??? The saving grace is the acting. Tom Arnold, Lisa
Kudrow and Maggie Gyllenhaal give great performances and really make
their characters three dimensional. And each story unto itself is
pretty interesting. The gay couple story was a bit trite and clich�d as
far as the depiction of homosexual couples, but was still serviceable
and interesting. I guess if I were to fix the story I would have
strengthened the bonds between plot lines or I would have separated
them completely. The tie-in between Otis and Mamie's stories was
tenuous and tacked on. It's as though the writer were cheating a bit.
Here we have some great stories and duologue. The acting is very good.
But the writer didn't spend the extra time it would have taken to
really craft the story into a cohesive whole, rather than resorting to
the whole "indie" flick dodge of incomplete, fragmented storytelling
passing as "art."
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