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Okay, so I was really excited to see this movie, if only to see if Mandy still made the Mandy Moore face where she scowls and purses her lips to display every emotion... seriously, does this girl emote in real life? And if so, does she really do this lip pursing thing as so many of her characters do? Probably not, especially since I didn't see the Mandy face once throughout the entire movie.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Okay, so Mandy got some acting lessons and Diane Keaton completely forgot how to act... how did that happen? I mean, I thought she was one the greatest actresses of our time and all and here she is... completely fuckin it up.
It's probably one of the only times you'll ever hear me say that Mandy Moore was a better actress. Not that Piper Parabo (or however you spell that) and Lauren Graham were bad, they were really good, but they didn't get enough airtime.
I'd like to also point out he cliched chick flickiness of this movie. As much as I like chick flicks this one basically went through a check list... Evil 'Perfect' Guy pitted against the guy who would seem like the wrong guy at first but turns out to be the perfect one. Check. Dog, so when there's the slightest hint of a moment that a canine could catch onto we can do a shot of his reaction, just in case. Check. Constant phone conversations, including the several messages left by the mother where she is audibly in a more pathetic state with each message until the final one where she confesses she was wrong and the wronged party finally picks up to forgive them. Check. I like that they were caterers, but with catering comes cakes and with cakes come the inevitable face plant into it, so... Check. There was even the scene that has become more popular since Carrie and the girls, the sitting around talking about sex in the bluntest way possible... combined with another chick flick staple, shoe/dress shopping. Check and Check. Although I really did like when Milly's [Mandy Moore] older sister [Piper] informs her mother that Milly is so quiet because she's "doing the oompa loompa with two guys" I really like that euphemism.
Then the inevitable girl begs guy for another chance and is pushed away only to have him convinced by someone close to her to rething it. This time it's her mother, who was very adamantly against this particular relationship with particular guy. She was going for the cold and slightly heartless Architect, Tom Everett Scott who I've loved since An American Werewolf In Paris [which responsible me watched while I was babysitting a 2 year old when I was 16]. But then Gabriel Macht, the heart and soul musician stole my love with his sexiness. I know we're supposed to relate to and adore the female characters, but it was the guys i liked and the girls I just wanted to forget. Mandy's comedic timing is more than a little off and I would say that it's non-existant except for the fact that we saw she had it in spades during her Scrubs guest spot and her movie SAVED!. So where did it go? Who knows, maybe she dropped it with the lip-pursing, maybe it was dependent on the lip-purse, if so I'll gladly have it back.
Another thing I have ask, what was with all the damn sex stuff? It was awkward. Like when the mom asks her youngest daughter what an orgasm feels like... are you kidding me? What daughter would actually explain this without getting icked out and saying that she didn't want to know that much about her mother in the first place? Seriously. It's like whoever wrote this knew almost nothing about real mother-daughter relationships.
Still, somehow I kinda still liked it. I didn't want to, but I did. I like in even though by the end of the movie I wanted to kick Diane's Daphne in the face with steel toed boots that I would buy specifically for the occasion. I would've kicked her twice.
Okay, so Mandy got some acting lessons and Diane Keaton completely forgot how to act... how did that happen? I mean, I thought she was one the greatest actresses of our time and all and here she is... completely fuckin it up.
It's probably one of the only times you'll ever hear me say that Mandy Moore was a better actress. Not that Piper Parabo (or however you spell that) and Lauren Graham were bad, they were really good, but they didn't get enough airtime.
I'd like to also point out he cliched chick flickiness of this movie. As much as I like chick flicks this one basically went through a check list... Evil 'Perfect' Guy pitted against the guy who would seem like the wrong guy at first but turns out to be the perfect one. Check. Dog, so when there's the slightest hint of a moment that a canine could catch onto we can do a shot of his reaction, just in case. Check. Constant phone conversations, including the several messages left by the mother where she is audibly in a more pathetic state with each message until the final one where she confesses she was wrong and the wronged party finally picks up to forgive them. Check. I like that they were caterers, but with catering comes cakes and with cakes come the inevitable face plant into it, so... Check. There was even the scene that has become more popular since Carrie and the girls, the sitting around talking about sex in the bluntest way possible... combined with another chick flick staple, shoe/dress shopping. Check and Check. Although I really did like when Milly's [Mandy Moore] older sister [Piper] informs her mother that Milly is so quiet because she's "doing the oompa loompa with two guys" I really like that euphemism.
Then the inevitable girl begs guy for another chance and is pushed away only to have him convinced by someone close to her to rething it. This time it's her mother, who was very adamantly against this particular relationship with particular guy. She was going for the cold and slightly heartless Architect, Tom Everett Scott who I've loved since An American Werewolf In Paris [which responsible me watched while I was babysitting a 2 year old when I was 16]. But then Gabriel Macht, the heart and soul musician stole my love with his sexiness. I know we're supposed to relate to and adore the female characters, but it was the guys i liked and the girls I just wanted to forget. Mandy's comedic timing is more than a little off and I would say that it's non-existant except for the fact that we saw she had it in spades during her Scrubs guest spot and her movie SAVED!. So where did it go? Who knows, maybe she dropped it with the lip-pursing, maybe it was dependent on the lip-purse, if so I'll gladly have it back.
Another thing I have ask, what was with all the damn sex stuff? It was awkward. Like when the mom asks her youngest daughter what an orgasm feels like... are you kidding me? What daughter would actually explain this without getting icked out and saying that she didn't want to know that much about her mother in the first place? Seriously. It's like whoever wrote this knew almost nothing about real mother-daughter relationships.
Still, somehow I kinda still liked it. I didn't want to, but I did. I like in even though by the end of the movie I wanted to kick Diane's Daphne in the face with steel toed boots that I would buy specifically for the occasion. I would've kicked her twice.
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