Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

TeenzTen An action-packed slog

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

MBunge Boy, I hate to rip on this movie. Clerks was a masterful film, one of the landmarks of independent cinema, and Jeff Anderson's performance as Randall was a big reason for that. If Kevin Smith's name wasn't also on this thing, as in "Kevin Smith presents Now You Know" on the DVD cover, I'd be sorely tempted to let this one go and move on to the next piece of crap. But people who love Smith's work are going to rent this thing. People who loved Anderson in Clerks as much as I do are going to rent this thing. Somebody has to warn them they're better off watching Mallrats or Cop Out again.Before I get into the story, let me make this clear. Kevin Smith has a well deserved, and self acknowledged, reputation as an excellent writer who isn't all that wonderful a director. His movies are great because of what people say, not what they do or how they're shown doing it. Well, take all the criticisms of Smith as a filmmaker, multiply them by 5 and then subtract all the clever dialog and interesting characters. The product of that equation is Jeff Anderson writing and directing in this motion picture.Now You Know is about Jeremy (Jeremy Sisto) and Kerri (Rashida Jones), two New Jersey kids who grew up together, fell in love and moved to Las Vegas where they and everyone else expected them to eventually get married. But then Kerri called off the wedding and refused to tell Jeremy why. Now they're both stuck taking a trip back to Jersey for what would have been their marriage and instead they have to hang around with their old friends and try and explain what happened. That doesn't seem terribly promising but Anderson has genuinely come up with an interesting premise. As it's set up, it appears that Kerri is the bad guy in this situation. She's the one who broke up with Jeremy. But what Anderson tries to get to in his story is that while Kerri is the one who acted, it's really Jeremy's doubts about holy matrimony and their relationship which passive-aggressively pushed Kerri into calling things off. That's an interesting and somewhat sophisticated foundation on which to build a raunchy romantic comedy.After putting down that foundation, however, it's like Anderson hired a bunch of blind and deaf quadruple amputees to build his house. Scenes are staged and shot in the most boring and rudimentary manner. Instead of conversations between characters sounding like smarter versions of what you say to your own friends, the dialog hear is like dumber versions of what you say to people at work you barely know. The sets do look like they were made by professionals, but pros who barely had enough money to pay for coffee in the morning, let alone props and furniture. One of the characters only exists because Anderson wanted to begin and end with the same lame joke. Jeremy Sisto and Rashida Jones walk around with atrocious hairstyles that don't match up with the way any other character looks. Three extraneous characters are tossed in toward the end as though Anderson lost a bet with his agent and had to find work for the agent's other clients. And the head-shakingly worst bit is how Anderson repeatedly subjects the viewer to extended scenes that revolve around Trevor Fehrman, playing one of Jeremy's Jersey buddies, as though Fehrman is supposed to be this movie's Jason Mewes. The difference is that Mewes has undeniable on screen presence and Fehrman has all the charisma of a sea anemone.Now You Know is too long, too slack, too slow and too subdued. It has all the energy of an octogenarian with two broken hips and as much edge as a bag of tapioca pudding. I can respect Kevin Smith's loyalty in helping a friend make his own movie and get it out to the public, but sometimes supporting a friend has to take a back seat to not letting them embarrass themselves in public.

Amsomnia Studios This is one story for the memory, if you like these weird love stories with a kinky and strange but lovely tone buy this.Story: 9/10 The story is simple Shane is a man coming home from las Vegas being dumped by his soon to be wife because she have second thoughts, so he takes home to see his room and other things. About here a call comes from his two friends Gil and the strange Biscuit, and from there on it is a ride in some way, it is a funny comedy romance movie that will make you want to see it more then ones.Music: 8/10 Well it is your simple kind of music like in almost any other romance movie or comedy movie so not much to say about that is there really no i guess not.Actors: 9/10 Well we have a long great cast who does it greatly even some we have seen in the newest movies today, but the one standing out is the man who directed it ohh you thought i would forget him did you well then i will hehe, i dare you do find out it for yourselves by buying this awesome flick of a movie.Overall: 8/10 Well the movies has small flaws but not much so it will get from me a big 8 because i feel it really deserves that much, get ready to laugh and sit down watching this lovely movie...

porfle I wasn't privileged to see this film at the Vulgarthon, so I didn't get to drink whatever totally awesome Kool-Aid they apparently had on hand there! This definitely is not the greatest romantic comedy I've seen in years! I wasn't totally blown away by the great acting and incredible script, because they didn't exist! What I did find, however, were some pretty good comedy bits scattered here and there amidst a bunch of lifeless and boring romantic nonsense with lead characters that were extremely unappealing! This would've been a better movie if they'd concentrated on the Gil and Biscuit characters and deep-sixed Jeremy and Kerri, because I really couldn't care less about their dull romantic complications! And, unlike many of the people posting rave reviews of this flick, I actually have written more than one user comment!

PeachHamBeach Well worth the apparently 1000 mile pilgrimage I made to Vulgarthon '05 in LA/Hollywood!!! Don't mistakenly believe this is a chick flick. It may be romantic comedy, but it's really FUNNY romantic comedy!!! Its romantic parts are VERY romantic, and it's comedy is, like I said, very funny!!! NOW YOU KNOW is enjoyable from start to finish. Kerri and Jeremy (Rashida Jones and Jeremy Sisto) have been in love since high school, and have been friends longer than that. Their wedding is coming up, but inexplicably, Kerri calls of the engagement. Something went wrong, and it's not clear. Surely a couple who went to college together and even moved to Las Vegas from New Jersey together would have the kind of perfect relationship we all dream about, with perfect communication, perfect problem resolution, etc. But no, something has gone wrong. And because we don't know the whole story, it's easy to take sides. Look at Marty!!! I found myself siding with Jeremy, thinking, God, what a whiner she is!!! He's great and she's whining about flowers and the L word not being said enough!!! As the film progresses, Kerri, at first a grating character (to me anyway) becomes more understood. If not for the intervention of a funny, witty Heather Paige Kent as Marty, though, "Kerri" could easily have turned NOW YOU KNOW into an irritating chick flick. Cliffy the kid brother was funny too!!! While Kerri and Marty tell each other their woes, Jeremy gets involved with the hilarious "fun loving criminal" hijinks of his friends Gil (played by director Jeff Anderson) and Biscuit (Trevor Furhman). I at first thought the Gil and Biscuit team was going to be the sole provider of comedy for this film, because Sisto's character starts out so serious and melancholy, but as soon as these three get together, it's 100% fun!!! The conversations in the bar, and the break-ins that result in gunfire are hilarious, but Sisto also does well in scenes that have no sign of Gil and Biscuit. Once away from Kerri, he becomes a great comedic character that you don't spend the entire movie feeling sorry for/irritated at. I thought the Grandparents were cute (you never know what'll happen with grandparents on the scene!!!) and the "morning wood" sequence was priceless!!! And as I said above, the romance is pretty romantic. Some of the "I love you" scenes were overwhelmed by guitar music that didn't seem to add anything. The explanations that surfaced seemed fair and realistic and the ending was satisfying. There were no villains, no "battle of the sexes" stuff. It's just a very cute and enjoyable film about people who love each other so much that they think what they have is too good to be true and they're terrified of being hurt and committing themselves to something as huge as marriage.Okay, when's the DVD coming out???!!!