Sunday 17 September 2006

A Lot Like Love (2005)

Having finally warmed to big lunk Ashton Kutcher in the director's cut of "The Butterfly Effect", I had no reluctance watching this rom-com starring him and Amanda Peet.  Of course neither one of them is guaranteed box office gold, but in its small way this movie was entertaining enough and an acceptable way to spend ninety odd minutes.  Just don't expect me to remember much about it in say a month from now.  After spotting each other at the airport, the couple "meet cute" by her barging into the airline toilet just after he has entered and effectively having her way with him.  Not that he objected.   They part (several times as it happens) but agree that she should look him up in six years to discover how big a success he has become and how gorgeous a wife he will have.  Fortuitously the couple does meet periodically over this period, but since each has his own agenda, their obvious attraction is not permitted to develop -- until of course the very end, where in the nick of time they realise that the other one is really the perfect one they have been seeking all along.  No big surprise that, but a pleasant enough ride. 

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