This was a really cute movie. Funny and nice and smarter than it had to be.
It gave its characters more complexity than this type of picture usually does.
My new pet peeve though: people talking on their cells in the theater and then recounting their conversation to the person sitting next to them. Argh!
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Your much more forgiving than I am. My pet peeve is other people in theaters.
Oddly enough, I also saw this this evening, in attempting to find a film both housemate Alice and I might like...I liked it better than I expected, for the reasons you cite for the most part (along with a smidgen of not-quite-nostalgia for my body-surfing days in Hawaii), though Alice was less enthusiastic. She did find the protag reminiscent of me. When Bill Crider complains that this is a bit too long, he'll be right, too, but it is very even-handed and relatively mature for a film about twenty-somethings.
Pity about the trailer for GET SMART...hope the movie's better than That. But most of them are...there never have been very many adroit trailers.
clair you crack me up :)
so my son came home on time for a change - yay! - and we were so happy about him observing his curfew that it almost got by me when I asked what they saw and he named a movie that's been out of the theater for 3 weeks. That's why little sisters were invented - to bust their big brother's ass. Long story short - he lied about seeing Sarah Marshall because I kind of forgot to tell him that, now that he is 15.5, R-rated movies are no longer at the top of my things-to-worry-about-regarding-Tyler list.
We yelled a little and then when he was out of the room had a laugh about it :)
HA! We have been known to change seats three times or more, thus becoming more annoying than the talkers.
Oh, didn't GET SMART look bad. Couldn't come up with a single funny scene to show.
Oh, those teenage years are awful. My kids were pretty good too, but I was a terrible liar myself.
Yay. A movie review. Love those!
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