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Summary: Caterer Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) and network sports director Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) discover a reciprocal hatred during an ill-fated first date -- but are forced to put their feelings aside when their mutual friends die and they become the guardians for orphaned Sophie. Now, Holly and Eric must learn to live with each other and juggle their promising careers while taking care of the little girl in this romantic comedy.
I picked up this flick solely because of Katherine Heigel and I was not sorry a bit. She's divine. She's hot and she can be funny as hell. The story was total baloney, a non existing paper doll life you can find only from movies. And even like that it was one of the worst in long time. And Christina Hendricks. I fell in love with her acting already in Mad Men. She's not only got a hot body, she can act as well. I was surprisingly glad to find her from this flick too.
"While director Greg Berlanti has a knack for cheap sentimentality, he's also surprisingly deft at moving between melodrama and moments of levity." - Paul Schrodt
Berlanti's irreality -- following the cutesy script by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson -- results in a synthetic vision of life that is, essentially, an appeasement of the pre-fab, bourgeois status quo.
The actors didn't have a chance - that ridiculous house chewed right through the scenery. Surely it would have been marginally more interesting if the protagonists had inherited parenting duties, a messy little bungalow and a heap of bills. And cupcakes, too!? What is this, some kind of massive double switchback irony exercise? Heigl is actually sort of funny, but it's all kind of a heavily furnished waste.
Why did I even watch this movie, I still have no idea. The story is a make believe story even for a movie, a really bad one too. I really found it hard to be even willing to accept the story, to far fetched. Didnt even have a chance to break smirk on my face either.
You know that Jimmy Durante line...the song has gotta come from the heart? Well, it does, and this one does too. The music choices are very bad and accent the (hyper?) sentimentality too much. This ain't a bad film. I believed the relationship of the two leads and I liked them too.