I got it from Netflix, which IMO doesn't really cost me, as I pay monthly anyway. So you know those weekend nights when you have to stay up late waiting for your child to come home and you need a diversion to keep from falling asleep, even thought you've been up since 5:30 am and could have hit the sack at 9pm? That was my night last night so I figured it was the perfect time to pop this piece of crap in my dvd player and the snark factor would keep me awake.
So here are my observations about the movie:
1) There are something like four movie production companies in the credits. I don't understand why.
2) Katie is billed as executive producer along with John Carribino, who I thought was the name of her agent?
3) Then there are two or three other "produced by" credits. These must be the original producers of the movie before Tiny bought this project for KAKA.
4) KAKA did get top billing.
As we all know the plot of the story is a love triangle between these trendy adults who gather at a beach house for Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel's wedding. KAKA is part of the triangle. So the funniest impression I got from her acting is that she is channeling Tiny's moves in her acting now. The movie opens with her driving in her car grooving to some music and her facial expressions and movements were very Tom Cruise-like. Then she had this scene where she was having a spoken inner monologue and I got the impression that she had watched Jerry Maguire and taken notes because her expressions and her pauses and her intense moments of revelation sounded like how Tom speaks on screen.
Other than that, the movie is stupid. The problem is the dialogue, there is too much speech-making. No one is natural. Kaka and Josh have this intense scene together and her lines go on forever and she uses such big words and convuleted sentence structures all I could think of was wow, what a lot of script you had to memorize.
Then there are the tree trunk legs. They are huge and in the above scene with Josh Duhamel they are front and center on the screen for a long time. It is hard to imagine gorgeous Josh Duhamel pining over this amazon woman with big legs. Katie is just so big and I know it is not her fault but in this ensemble cast she does not fit in physically.
Oh, and Anna Paquin is gorgeous and emotes so appropriately. I can't take my eyes off of her when she is on screen.
I'll add more observations if I finish the movie.
