BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

cliverphmccombe What a shame. The idea was good, how sad that insufficient attention was paid to the dialogue. We have Hannah, the supposedly speech perfect politician, who can't stop saying "gonna" (9 minutes into the film - "...and the school board is gonna visit..."). There is no such word in the English language. I'm sorry Americans but all such words are 100% slang. The film is however ultimately saved by the lovely and eminently watchable Julia Stiles.

Oliver Thatcher Watson This film isn't good in the slightest. First, the editing is the film is mediocre at best, and makes the movie feel more like a project than an actual film. Second, the story is pretty dumb and pointless considering it does NOT go on a good flow whatsoever. It's a choppy story that goes all over the place and leaves you to wonder "What am I even watching?" Third, the script in this film is okay. While that's not necessarily a bad thing, it still feels like it could've been thought about more. I will be honest and say that the acting in this film is actually pretty great, and came off as believable. But good acting isn't going to save this film from its mediocre editing, brainless story, and so-so script. I can't really recommend this film to anyone, as there are much better films than this. This film isn't awful, necessarily, but it sure is appalling.

K S David Walton plays a delightful 'heart of gold' young man with a keen sense for people. Julia Stiles plays a smart, razor-edged-personality politician who lives in her head. She is a judgmental young woman.It amazes me John Gray, the director, was blind to the 'heroine's' lack of character growth. He didn't show her changing despite her being warned by others who love her. That's all the movie needed to make it heart-warming and worth caring about.It makes no sense that Walton's character fell in love with her. Her mean-spiritedness is endless. She doesn't feel others pain at her sarcastic, hurtful comments or their hurts and losses. She never truly apologizes. It's a disheartening movie, in that a wonderful, talented young man attaches himself to a smart, driven woman who lacks empathy and emotional self-awareness. I found it a downer to watch.Julia Stiles deserved a better vehicle for her acting talent and she ought to have fought for a more teachable, lovable character. Walton ought to have demanded that, too, for his own character's sake. Camryn Manheim, too, was funny, played a good friend to Stiles, but didn't demand enough change, either. A waste of a decent plot.

boblipton This sex-change version of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION (best known in its musical version of MY FAIR LADY) seems a trifle tired. It works best when it moves furthest from its source; the standout character is Elliot Doolittle's sister, although Frances Fisher as his mother is obviously having a lot of fun with the bowdlerized version of Alfie Doolittle. Julia Stiles as Higgins seems to be clueless about how things actually work and David Walton as Elliot seems to go from a mush-mouthed Southie to someone whose greatest problem with language seems to be when to use "whom" without much struggle.However, it's a great story and despite a few missteps in the script -- intended to make it fit the standard Hallmark romcom format -- it has some great moments of actual comedy. If, unlike its original, it does not start out all head and let the emotions of the matter sneak in later, that is a choice I can understand.One particularly praiseworthy fact is that there are a lot of shots that show how clearly this one is set in Boston, and not just the typical setting shots, but real places that someone familiar with the city would choose. I always take special pleasure in seeing things like that in a movie.