Dir. Garry Marshall. Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Patrick Dempsey, Kathy Bates, Jennifer Garner et al.
Garry Marshall made Pretty Woman, which was really rather good despite the distasteful upbeat Hollywoodification of prostitution which wasn't exactly Julia Roberts's number one feminist highlight. Pretty Woman was the last and greatest of a trio of decent late-80s films (the others were Beaches and Overboard). And then in the late 90s he made Runaway Bride, which was absolutely dreadful. This decade I only know him for the two Princess Diaries movies, neither of which I've seen (really?) So for me he hasn't done f*** all in twenty years. Which is a mean thing to say, even if we're on the internet, the home of all things mean.
So anyway, I really wanted to like this. The cast are good - Julia Roberts is always worthwhile, Bradley Cooper's emergence in recent years is welcome (even if All About Steve looked like a big ball of suck - not that I've seen it), and everyone else involved is generally good value. And the concept seems cool - Crash or Short Cuts meets Love, Actually (which wasn't all that bad really, even if it wasn't a patch on Notting Hill which was rather good). And then you watch the trailer. And it looks like shit.
Maybe they put the worst bits in the trailer. I don't know, I haven't seen the film. And on the strength of this probably won't. Unless I'm on a plane or something.
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