SO I just finished watching this movie a couple of days ago. The reason I watched it because Julia Roberts was in it and shes one of my favorite actresses. Here is a short summary of whats it about, Well it starts with a famous Hollywood couple that is going through a divorce, and a movie director who lost his job and has the chance to get it back if he can bring John Cusack's character and Zeta Jones character back to together. Julia Roberts' character is Zeta Jones sister in the movie and happens to to get with John Cusack's character because she always had a crush on him and John Cusack has always liked her.Well the movie was good, it wasn't great. Yes most people will watch it because of the cast and not like it. Christopher Walken steals the show as always in the beginning and end, with short scenes. There are some really funny scenes, but thats about it. The plot of the movie is okay nothing excitint.I give it 6 out of 10 stars. I would at least give it a chance if your fan of any of the actors in this film, or if you like that type of genre.

I actually highly enjoyed this movie. The relationship between Catherine Zeta-Jones and Julia Roberts was rather cute and I really loved Billy Crystal and Seth Green in this movie.It's a fairly simple premise, woman cheats on man, man goes crazy, they have to pretend to be getting back together to encourage people to see their final movie together and fool the critics at a junket. At the beginning we find out that the director (Christopher Walken) is refusing to let anyone see it until the end of the junket, so Billy Crystal and Seth Green have to run around and put everyone though some distractions to keep the press from asking too much about the movie that they don't know is currently missing.I can't say it's the greatest movie ever but it's certainly one of the cutest. I love the interaction between everyone and on days I just want a 'feel good' movie, this is the one I always seem to gravitate towards.

There is a common cliché in film commenting, usually by average viewers, the target audiences for films such as this, which goes like: it's good to watch because it allows me not to think and to forget the real world. Something like that. This is a bogus, of course. No one who thinks will stop thinking in front of some unchallenging piece of entertainment, like this film, and those who usually aren't accustomed to question things, won't do it, no matter what film you place in front of them. But i understand the meaning of the concept of "not thinking", and this film has a gold place in the (huge) warehouse of films designed not to be interesting, merely entertain. That's because if the makers of it didn't place interesting leads for us to follow, there's nothing to follow.Well, even in the worst swamps we have some flowers growing, so there are two things i point out here: One is John Cusack. The guy is good, and brings something fresh even to worn out roles like this one. He has a strange way to place himself in between the narrative in the film and us, audiences. Is neither a real life person (like us, as viewers) nor a film integrated character. Instead it seems like he a kind of David Attenborough of cinema, someone who is in the action scene, but comfortably protected by some bushes, while commenting on the dangerous lions meal. He is great.Taking this Cusack situation, i think we have the core of this film. We have 2 plus 2 characters swinging all the time between two distinct realities in the film: that of stardom, and that of the "real life" in the film. Absolutely everything, every joke, every romance bit, every discussion, every plot point swings around the idea that famous actors like Cusack and Zeta Jones' characters have two faces, two lives; one that shows to the whole world, shiny and brilliant, and the reality of boring, unhappy and unfit lives. In the end Zeta Jones sticks to the fake reality of fame, and that's why she stays with the Spanish equally fake character; and Cusack stays with Julia Roberts' character, someone who live in the shadow of stardom all her life, watching and living star environments all the way without ever becoming part of it. There's a public venue where all the assumptions (by the public in the film and the characters) take place. That's a golden rule of date films.So, the way i see it, we have this: the "real" life of Jones and Cusack's characters is to their star profile, in the film, as this film is to real interesting cinematic ideas. Dull, boring, empty, trying to look bright, shiny and appealing. But hey, this entertains, and even if you start thinking about it, you won't take much out of it, so i suppose it completes its purposes.My opinion: 1/5 http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com

The film has a funny beginning where married Hollywood starlets separate and find others to share their lives with. The truth is that the studio wants them to reconcile for film success purposes.Even an all-star cast can't help this film which dissolves fairly rapidly into routine hogwash.The writers must have been thinking of "The Producers" and that awful comical scene with the Nazis when they made this film. Their scene was just as insulting and insensitive and luckily they ended it quickly.To think that a crazed Christopher Walken could capture John Cusack and Catherine Zeta Jones into their private looniest ways is ridiculous. It seems to be a relief when Cusack falls for Julia Roberts, Catherine's sister in this mess of a film.Hank Azaria displays a funny Spanish accent with a lisp and is correctly referred to as Rickie Ricardo, but otherwise his part is wasted.