The good: Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis do a good job at portraying a couple whose marriage has been falling apart over the last 15 years. Despite their excessive screaming and yelling, you somehow still like them. Star quality, I presume.
The bad: This is a Lifetime TV movie-of-the-week, albeit with better actors. If you enjoy reliving unpleasant marriage memories with lame humor, then this film is for you. The film was mismarketed as a comedy. The few "funny" moments in this film were in the movie trailer. If you want laughs in a crumbling-marriage movie, please watch the hilarious "The Ref."
The ugly: The (un)"funny" friends--Rob Reiner, Rita Wilson, and the abominable Paul Reiser. It's more the rotten lines written for them, rather than their acting, that bothered me. Their jokes are of the bad TV-sitcom variety, which does not fit in with the serious nature of the film. It's jarring and annoying. Poor Rita Wilson deserves better--normally she's really funny!
The bad: This is a Lifetime TV movie-of-the-week, albeit with better actors. If you enjoy reliving unpleasant marriage memories with lame humor, then this film is for you. The film was mismarketed as a comedy. The few "funny" moments in this film were in the movie trailer. If you want laughs in a crumbling-marriage movie, please watch the hilarious "The Ref."
The ugly: The (un)"funny" friends--Rob Reiner, Rita Wilson, and the abominable Paul Reiser. It's more the rotten lines written for them, rather than their acting, that bothered me. Their jokes are of the bad TV-sitcom variety, which does not fit in with the serious nature of the film. It's jarring and annoying. Poor Rita Wilson deserves better--normally she's really funny!