I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)

If only it were possible to give zero stars

What a dreadful piece of dross. Poorly written/directed/lit/acted and everything else. The excruciating post-Sex and the City smart-aleckery was just plain not funny.
And the usually watchable Rudd was the most irritating suitor since that Scottish bloke in Sliding Doors.
How does stuff like this get green-lit? What were they thinking?
Rom-com Hell! June 3, 2008

Loved it, but want the Soundtrack

This was a great movie and if you are girly you will love it too! The only thing is that there isn't a soundtrack released and well the daughter Izzy makes fun of several singers and makes her own version of their songs and it is hilarious!! It will make you want to have it on your ipod! May 6, 2008

Hamming it up for the cameras

I Could Never Be Your Woman has got to be one of the most corny films to date from Writer and Director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times At Ridgemont High and Clueless fame). It is an unusual film that pairs seasoned actress, Michelle Pfeiffer (Rosie) with astoundingly quirky actor, Paul Rudd (Adam). Thus far, Rudd's almost improvised performance is genuine and the highlight of the film.

The film focuses on Rosie, a forty-something divorced single mom and Hollywood TV producer who happens to fall head over heels for Adam, a late twenty-something up and coming comic-actor, during the production of a teen oriented sitcom, "You Go Girl," which is somewhat a play on the 1990s show "Saved By The Bell." While Rosie is going through the motions of having to deal with the generation gap between she and Adam, she also has to deal with her daughter, Izzie (Saoirse Ronan) who is experiencing her growing pains of maturity from a little girl to a young woman. Also in the film is Jon Lovitz (Nathan) who plays the ex-husband who passes his time going through one cosmetic surgery after another and Tracey Ullman who plays the doting Mother Nature character who resembles the 1970s Chiffon margarine commercial Mother Nature.

And with most romantic comedies, all fairs well in the end. There is plenty of comic relief from Rudd, which keeps the film rolling along with a barrel full of laughs; undoubtedly he is hilarious in the dance scene, and it appears that the rest of the cast looked like they were having fun making the film too. But as a forewarning, the opening credits may make one cringe with the sight of the Hollywood past time of makeovers cavorting the screen. Otherwise, this straight to DVD film most likely will appeal to many viewers.
April 22, 2008

Painfully boring

It sounds like quite a few people checked out this movie because of the EW article about how it went straight to DVD instead of having a chance at a run in the theater. Well, no wonder! I think the main reason for that is some smart executive actually watched it and felt too horrified to release it into wide circulation. I couldn't believe how poorly it was done, and despite the charm of the stars - Michelle Pfeiffer looks radiant and Paul Rudd is quirky cute as usual, I could not keep watching it. I think it took 30 minutes before I returned the DVD back to Netflix, and I tried, I really really tried. I think the character of Mother Nature (played by very annoying here Tracy Ullman) who occasionally shows up eating chips should have been the first clue to turn it off. There seemed to be no plot and little point besides telling us that every age is beautiful in its own way. I was just about to comment on pacing, and I realized there was none. Basically it was disorganized. Argh, to waste 30 minutes on this... April 21, 2008

I Could Always Watch This Movie

Lots of fun stuff in this flick: Paul Rudd's goofiness, Tracey Ullman's cruel torturing of the lovely, yet aging, Michelle Pfeiffer, Saoirse Ronan's pre-Oscar adorableness, Jon Lovitz in a pair of short shorts that should be burned so that he can never wear them again, and, as usual, Heckerling's dead-on skewering of Hollywood's sham-glam lifestyle.

There are no implausible low-brow gags and none of the characters waste any time on the screen. A lot happens in this tight little film and at the end of it, you feel like you've been told a complete, entertaining story, which is a pretty rare thing to see in today's cinemas.

Speaking of which, this movie got shafted. Straight-up. If it had been given a decent post-production life, release, and advertising campaign, it could've put some serious booties in the theater seats and people wouldn't have felt like throwing popcorn and pickles at the screen halfway through it.

This is one of those movies that, unlike most studio-driven, profit-turning garbage pile films today that are filled with hack dialogue and desperate marketing tactics, makes use of a talented cast & crew with the purpose of making a statement (or several, in this case) about the modern world. And you get to laugh plenty before the credits roll.

Does that sound like a bad deal? I don't think so. March 3, 2008

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