| SOMEONE LIKE YOU |
2001 - USA
Director: Tony Goldwyn - Reviewed by Tim  OK,
I admit it, I went to see this movie based on the fact that the lovely Miss Judd
was in it. What can I say, sometimes my hormones get the best of me. As the
Smiths so eloquently put it: “I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody
else does.”
“Umm… Ashley… um, yea… would… would… would you… um… date me?” The last times I made that mistake, I was burned severely. Last year’s Eye of the Beholder left me as cold and disgruntled as I’ve ever been after a movie. Someone Like You, I’m happy to say, did not make me rip up my seat and throw it against the screen. It did, however, leave me a bit deflated and questioning if I’m a “Romantic Comedy” kind of person though. I think I might need more grit in my films. Someone Like You is the story of Jane Goodale (Judd), and how after getting scorched by her whirlwind love affair, starts an anthropomorphic journey to try and explain why men are like bulls in a herd of cows. You see, after being dumped by her boyfriend, Ray (Greg Kinnear), and loosing her apartment, she is forced to move in with her womanizing co-worker, Eddie (Hugh Jackman). After letting her bitterness for Ray fester, and watching Eddie screw half of New York City, Jane’s theory becomes a bit more solidified. Suddenly she’s referring to women as either an “old cow” or a “new cow” to support her bull theory. (I have to say that it’s nice to see men being referred to an animal other than a pig-- *Oink*.) Somehow, after an inside push from her friend Liz (Marisa Tomei), Jane is asked to write a column, under a pseudonym, for the leading men’s magazine. This is, of course, receives critical acclaim and she is suddenly thrust into the dual life of talent booking agent (her day job) and secret columnist. You see, in the movies, only exciting things happen to the pretty people. They never just sit around with their friends on Thursday nights, eating pizza and waiting for Survivor to come on. In the end, after trauma and drama, girl gets boy and all is good in the world. It is a romantic comedy after all. Rating break down: - 1 slice for Ashley Judd being just so cute you wanna scoop her up and run away with her in your pocket. - 1 slice for Hugh Jackman making all the men in the audience feel a little sheepish in the looks department. And... - 1 slice for Marisa Tomei not being so obnoxious and actually trying to act this time. |
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