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Something's
Gotta Give
 Our problem with going to see romantic comedies has
always been that when they are good they are never really that good
and when they are bad they are really BAD! Since the genre allows no
real element of surprise as to what will happen to who, the movies
have to stand on their acting and dialog and when some combination
of these elements breaks down or doesn't ring true the result can be
painful to behold. Something's Gotta Give would not be a terrible
film in any other genre. It is nicely filmed, has a few funny
moments, and all the people are pleasant to look at. But because it
is a slave to it's class, it becomes almost unwatchable. Diane
Keaton plays a fifty something divorcee writer who experiences
epiphany at the hands of Jack
Nicholson while dating Keanu
Reeves. She smiles, looks cute, and sort of breezes through the
role tossing her hair and flicking her eyes hither and yon while
Jack behaves exactly like you'd expect him too. It's completely
uninteresting for the most part and five minutes after you've left
the theatre you've forgotten who any of the people were and what
they were supposed to be doing. You might remember the love scenes
between Jack and Diane but not for the right reasons or puzzle over
the fact that Diane would turn down a marriage proposal from the
Keanu doctor figure to ride off into the sunset with a man
who's had a couple heart attacks, one while having sex with her
daughter. Oh wait, that's right the daughter and Jack never actually
had sex because that doesn't fit with the RC formula. Anyway the
film is an almost complete waste of time and we can't remember any
more of the details to report other than Jon
Favreau and Frances
McDormand are in it for no apparent reason and Paul
Michael Glaser appears out of the where are they now file. Oh,
and Amanda Peet
plays the daughter and we always enjoy seeing her although she seems
to have slimmed down so much that she is no longer the bombshell she
was in say She's the
One or The Whole
Nine Yards
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