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Trust Weighted
Pretty Bad
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78Trust Points
Wick's Review
Summary - Pretty Bad 1.5
A marginal airplane movie, this by-the-numbers rom-com lacks charisma, character and comedy. Oh, there’s plenty of supposed laugh lines and even some slapstick. It’s just not funny. Some of the blame falls on Kristen Bell’s charmless leading lady, the rest on the witless team behind the camera.
Acting - Barely OK 2.0
Kristen Bell ain’t no Meg Ryan. Or Sandra Bullock. Or Reese Witherspoon. She’s a competent supporting player, as in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but that’s about it.
Josh Duhamel was OK as her leading man, and may have a future as a leading man, but he’s not enough of a star to rescue a bad movie like this.
The rest of the cast ranges from pretty bad to barely OK. Woof.
Male Stars - OK 2.5
Female Stars - Barely OK 2.0
Female Costars - Pretty Bad 1.5
Male Costars - Pretty Bad 1.5
Film - Pretty Bad 1.5
Director Mark Steven Johnson’s resume is heavy on action movies. Now that we’ve seen his dead-hand approach to rom-com, it’s clear why.
Direction - Barely OK 2.0
Dialogue - Pretty Bad 1.5
Music - Barely OK 2.0
Visuals - Pretty Bad 1.5
Gifted the Eternal City of Rome as a setting, the film merely waves at it out the window of a cab. What a waste.Edge - Tame 1.3
Sex Innocent 1.5
Violence Gentle 1.2
Rudeness Polite 1.3
Reality - Surreal 2.1
Surreal? More like silly. Not that there’s anything wrong with surrealism in a rom-com if it triggers laughs and romance. But no laughs and flat romance make the surreal seem silly.