viennashade
I saw the trailer online somewhere and thought it looked like the kind of movie I was in the mood for, but didn't expect much because...Heather Locklear? Well, it was even worse than I expected. First of all, turns out the trailer was not even accurate. It shows Heather with a guy who is never even in the movie (I guess I liked that scene, as it must have been what made me want to see it).Oh my, this was bad. It's hard for me to write this fast enough before forgetting it – it was that forgettable. I'm trying to decide between giving it a 2 and a 3. Was this a family movie? An after-school special? Then okay, maybe? On second thought, I'm not even sure it was a portrayal of good family values.TV-caliber acting with a less-than-TV-caliber production and script. Heather was sunny and upbeat, but this is just not good acting. (In fact, maybe she should have been less sunny and upbeat, in keeping with the pathetic personality of her character.) Hilary Duff (as Holly) seemed to be the only one with any real acting experience.Too unrealistic to be believable. Where do I start? The mother is so pathetic she has to leave the whole town over every breakup? With no regard for her children's stability? I could see if it was some small town where she grew up and knew everybody, but she obviously just moved there. Clearly not ready for a relationship (buuut, never fear – she quickly gets a strong sense of self at the last minute), let alone deserving of the perfect man.So desperate is this woman that she goes out with just about anybody, and will consider any marriage proposal. Even her teenage daughter knows they're all idiots. When Mom has a date with Lenny from her work, he botches the date at every turn, yet when daughter Holly seems to question her judgement, Mom says "I had a pretty good time!" It was also not accurate in its portrayal of Brooklyn teens. Or any teens, for that matter. We are expected to believe that the new girl in town walks into a tough city school and is instantly accepted, and that, during this most vulnerable time of her life, she breezes through yet another major life upheaval with no signs of stress or period of adjustment.However, Holly has had enough, so instead of rebelling like a normal kid, she sets out to fix everything. And if there was ever any doubt about the ending, you knew it for sure by now.Other than that, mostly it's just her mother embarrassing herself, Lenny being embarrassing, and the "perfect man" making a super nice doormat. Then the pace slows down even further with the instant-messaging scene. The one decent scene was in Ben's apartment when Holly claimed she needed some fatherly advice.More sitcom than romcom, only more ridiculous, with more-contrived situations and flimsier explanations. Oh, and without the comedy. At one point, when the daughter is trying to scam this perfect man to get some info out of him, she starts out by pretending she's asking for a research paper/project, but then basically tells him that her research paper is into Patsy Cline? They don't even bother to cover this up.We are more than misled to believe the Amber character is standing in the way of Holly's mother's happiness. Hooking her up with Ben is simply out of the question, since he is already with this Amber. Yet during the wedding ceremony, THEN it was a possibility?? The friend knows this girl is desperate to hook her mother up with the perfect man, yet she never mentions that her uncle is completely available? Serious water damage to a generous friend's business, and ruining someone's wedding? Because why? Because her mother and this guy both do crossword puzzles with a pen, and both like the same lame song? But even if it had been Ben that was getting hitched, why would you? Holly has never met this Amber she thinks he is marrying. How does she know Amber was not MORE of a perfect match for him? (BTW, as yet another example of how unlike real people these characters behave, nobody took the fire alarm seriously, seemingly trying more to escape the sprinklers than the fire, as they made their way – giggling – to the exit.) And what, do you suppose, are the odds of Holly arriving exactly at the moment when the minister asks if anyone has any objections to the marriage? Oh that's not an overused device. I should deduct a whole star right there.Seemingly written by a teenager (only one who is out of touch with his own kind), this film had no good characters or character development, no big laughs, no warm fuzzies, no insightful life lessons, no snappy dialogue, no plausibility, no surprises, no originality, and no shortage of plot holes. I had no anticipation whatsoever for these two people to get together. Not worth the time it took to write this, but I think people need to be warned.
roberta-678-99533
I have watched this movie a few times , I thought it wasn't gonna be that good but it is , its so romantic and i love the storyline. All the characters are great too. The best part of the story line is that holly is trying to make her mum happy by being the perfect man , little does she know that the guy shes getting the info from IS the perfect man and there's a person in her school who is HER perfect man.The review before this is stupid this is a great movie , WATCH IT !This movie is kind of a chick flick though , the scene were holy sets off the sprinklers in the restaurant is amazing and the point that yeah she kept moving but now she's in a place that she loves !!! XD
math_drama
I didn't really like Hilary Duff who played Holly, but the story was okay. It was interesting about how Holly tried to get her mom and her friends uncle to hook up, but it wasn't nice. I would be really mad if someone did that to me, but I liked how everything turned out. I'm glad that at the end of the movie, Holly's family ended up staying in the same house, but I found it very ironic how they never even moved once in the middle of the movie, and only once at the beginning to help show the story of how Holly's mother moved after every time she got dumped. The story was fine, but the actors were bad. Nothing really seemed to be perfect at all, so I give this movie seven stars. It was fine, but not good or great.
the_moody_youngest
To my dismay, this was a good movie! It was funny, incredibly cute, and super underrated! The critics described this movie to be: Perfectly dreadful, 1/10, and "How many blonds does it take to make a crappy movie; apparently 3! And I believed them! I was so naive at that time! But when I was in Newfoundland my aunt had burned this movie and my older sister wanted to watch it. I just said whatever and I thought I would fall asleep. I didn't. I really liked the character Amy because she was very funny and very pretty. This movie had a great plot! I loved this so much we both watched it again. Yes, it was great! This also had one great screenplay. I liked how Holly wanted to make her mom happy so she did that, which was wrong, but nice. I also liked the friendship between Holly and Amy. I could definitely see a life long friendship between the two because they really seem to get along and they became great friends. And I really thought Vanessa's(Amy's) fake New York accent was pretty convincing. She pulled off the role of a New Yorker, when she is really a Canadian.The character Zoey was adorable and I just wanted to pick her up because she was so cute. I really liked Lenny too. He was pretty funny and he was somewhat annoying. If I was the mom, I wouldn't date that guy in a million years! I know that sounds shallow but it really isn't, Lenny is funny but is still a little bit of a cocky jerk. Even though he has nothing to be cocky about(except for his hot ride) I would probably go out with Ben(if I was like 30 years older!) because he is a nice man. I was impressed with this film and you will be too. Rent it, please.
