Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

SnoopyStyle Bonnie Hunt is a national treasure. She and her friend funnyman Don Lake creates a show with Bonnie as a local TV host and a minor local celebrity, if they actually remember her name. The show centers on the local TV show that allows a guest star to really shine. Then there's a home front where things are much more sitcom.The show is best when the special guests are allowed to do wacky improvised characters like David Duchovny who played Johnny Volcano. Sometimes they even bring in some oldtimers like Carl Reiner and Rip Taylor. It's just fun to see them.The home front is much more traditional and not as special. And then for some reason, the daughter disappears (probably for contractual reason) which didn't help.

k k I cant stand watching this show. Its painfully unfunny and I don't know how it lasted for 2 seasons. The jokes are horrible and the plot is rubbish. The characters are so annoying and I don't feel the least bit of entertainment. It just seems that they are trying too hard to be funny, that it backfired. Hopefully this will be a learning experience for them. Well its about Bonnie who is a mother, loving wife (clearly not a funny one) , and TV host of a local talk show. She tries to maintain a public image of the perfect wife and mother when in reality, her life is chaotic (and not funny).I thought I should give it a chance and maybe I just caught the show at a bad episode but I was wrong they are just plain fully uninteresting. They did do their best in to making this show funny but clearly their best wasn't good enough. I gave it a 4 for effort. But I personally find it UNFUNNY.

gell3334 how in God's name can programmers retain such dreck as "Yes, Dear" and "Hope and Faith" yet cancel a creative and charming sitcom such as LWB? The mind boggles. It's been a few seasons since it's untimely demise, and, while there were flawed elements, and Bonnie may have been a little self-indulgent at times, the actors' joy at simply being on the air and working together was infectious. The cast was like an improv group and might as well have been called the "bonnie players", since quite a few of the cast had appeared together in one Hunt vehicle or another. If there has ever been a better Halloween episode conjured up for television, I challenge the reader to compare it to the episode in which the cast performs as characters from "The Wizard of Oz", a truly brilliant send up, and one that will forever be kept in my library to be replayed each Halloween. LWB, as under-rated though it was, developed a core audience that enjoyed the writing, improv and good cheer that each episode brought. It is sorely missed, and hopefully will wind up on DVD.

liquidcelluloid-1 Network: ABC; Genre: Sitcom; Content Rating: TV-G; Classification: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4)Season Reviewed: Complete Series (2 seasons)You could call 'Life with Bonnie' a respectable failure - I'd like to if it wasn't such a self-indulgent star vehicle. It's a show that longs to return to the days where sitcoms where family friendly and inspired talk around the water-cooler with simple zaniness. But it's also an attempt to insert Bonnie Hunt as the Lucille Ball for a new generation - by no one other than Hunt herself. Canned studio audience applause can be heard as the intro comes up (an old fashioned montage of the faces of its cast) and it's gags are lengthy set pieces of 'Lucy' inspired physical comedy. It marks, I believe, the 3rd attempt to launch Bonnie Hunt as a network sitcom star (after 'The Bonnie Hunt Show' and 'Bonnie'). I adore Bonnie Hunt in movies, and she certainly has a misguided Michael Essany-like tenacity toward her shows. But all of them have been pretty much the same, making me wonder if Hunt knows the definition of insanity. Watching the show you get an odd sense about it. And I don't mean just the non-stop parade of celebrity guest stars (from David Duchovney to Johnathan Winters) that lend their names and faces to Hunt's marquee each week. Watching it you get a strange sense that it is unable to control itself. The comedy bits wander on, long past the point where the concept was even funny. As if Hunt is trying desperately to make it work and won't stop until it does. As if the production is constantly on the verge of loosing control of the reigns entirely and spinning into an all-out mess. Sometimes, it actually happens. 'Life' pitches itself around one idea and then scrambles feverishly to stretch it out. The stories have no focus and often times no ending. I'm not asking for tightly wound resolutions, just something. Some level of coherence or sense of purpose. Learning that the show is almost entirely improvised certainly explains things. I set-up the tone before mentioning this well known fact because improve comedies can be brilliant. But it has to feel real and 'Life' looks and feels completely phony even without knowing this. Learning, for example, that 'Freaks and Geeks' was often improved floored me, because that show seems so natural. That's what's missing in the strained slapstick and forced laughs of 'Life'. The escapades are made all the more unwatchable by an audience (or laugh track, although I doubt hunt wouldn't do this without audience feedback) that that squeals with laughter constantly, often at nothing at all. It's a high-wire act and a good idea, but like any high-wire act it is either a big hit or a big miss. It's a gutsy gamble. Had it worked we'd be singing Hunt's praises as a comic genius, but it doesn't. And in the process Hunt pulls down everyone with it, including a talented David Allan Grier who could easily outshine Hunt if given the opportunity. Early on, Hunt decided this was going to be her baby come hell or high water, firing the writing staff and revamping the series in this format mid-way through season 1. She casts herself as star, principle writer, producer and director. Wow! The show comes complete with over-the-credit outtakes where we even get to see Hunt directing herself. Well, at least she went down as the captain of this ship. *