Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

bigeoghanwhelan Ewan McGregor features in yet another unremittingly awful offense to the senses. He really does just dial it in here. In what's supposed to be an homage to/spoof of the early 60s light comedies of Doris Day and, most often, Rock Hudson everyone just totally misses the mark. Whether you liked those movies or not, there was always at least some chemistry between the two leads. Here there's nothing. Where there should be sparky interaction with snappy one-liners being traded there's just two smug individuals trotting out their bland unfunny lines. What is the point of Renee Zellweger's character anyway? Apparently nobody seems to know. Certainly not Miss Zellweger and certainly not the writers.My theory is that some industry types came up with this for a wheeze in the early hours at the end of a major binge and somehow it became a horrendous reality.I feel offended that people got paid to spawn this.

southwest3210-156-400970 I saw this more as an experiment, a chance to pay homage to a time and place in movie-making. I was also reminded of "Breakfast at Tiffanys" a tad in its glamorization of that Jackie Kennedy/Audrey Hepburn period of high ladies fashion. It was sort of a 50's lag, a last vestige of the classy old styles before the hip/hippie modern era would sweep them away forever. Call it the end of elegance, if you will.On the other hand, it was the end of an era for the more innocent screwball comedies/romances as well. Movies changed just as abruptly, and got just as down to earth in its realism as the fashions. So, we are seeing here a double homage, to the fashions, and the more lighthearted tenor of movies, in the 50's/early 60's.The movie did well in the plot/story/jokes department. It was a tightrope, because if they got TOO risqué or hip, it would take away from the tenor and point of the whole retro/throwback thing. In that case, it inevitably would come across in some ways as a retread and stock, but that was the price paid for doing this. There simply was not much room to work with in any sense per plot development, and tongue-in-cheek can only go so far without betraying homage to the old school of doing things. With the aforementioned built-in restrictions, I think that Payton Reed did a pretty darn good job here! Well worth seeing, and a must-see for those who love retro fashions and movies.

naco64 Thought it might be interesting to read reviews, got through a dozen or so, and concluded IMDb's users, at least in this case, might be as well informed as tea party activists. This sendup of helen gurley brown's Sex and the Single Girl was about as good as light hearted as tongue-in-cheek sendups get. And since the original was in the genre of its remake (read Brown's notes in the New Yorker and Vanity Fair), you can find it a clever period hoot. But you'll have to get past your cliché blinders. No Doris Day, no Rock Hudson - the principals are Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis. Blonde hair and Anglo-American accoutremente don't change that.That's all folks. Enjoy a reprise of the reagan administration,oh, and Check out 'bonzo' and 'death valley days' if you wonder where all that Leadership talent started.

writers_reign For me the selling point of this movie was David Hyde Pierce. I got to know him via Frasier, in fact that was all I knew of him so I was pleasantly surprised to see him listed as chief support in what was clearly a comedy. It turned out it was a rip-off of Pillow Talk - the one where super-stud Rock Hudson pretends to be Caspar Milquetoast to get into Doris Day's pants. Tony Randall was usually along for ride back then, more often than not as the millionaire employer of whatever character Hudson was playing and completely in thrall to him. This time Hyde Piece plays the Randall role and the real Randall has a cameo. Tempus fugit. It's a pleasant enough time-waster but that's all.