 Several Critics are suggesting that the target audience for Nigel Cole's A Lot Like Love, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet, are the characters in Dumb and Dumber. "The movie is 95 minutes long, and neither character says a single memorable thing," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. "You've heard of being too clever by half? [The two lead characters} are not clever enough by three-quarters." Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe allows that the movie is not targeted at him -- or his colleagues. "The producers of this stillborn romantic comedy are betting there are many more college girls than there are testy movie critics, and they're doubtless correct. That doesn't change the cold, hard fact that their movie is a dog, with fleas." Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News calls the movie "ditsy" and remarks, "Any movie starring Ashton Kutcher requires our suspension of disbelief, but extra forgiveness is required for Nigel Cole's A Lot Like Love." Indeed, Kutcher provides a wide target for several critics, with Peter Howell in the Toronto Star landing a K.O. To wit: "Ashton Kutcher continues to be a punch line for which no satisfactory joke has yet been written." |
