Oliver
(Ashton Kutcher) and Emily (Amanda Peet) met on a flight from Los Angeles to New
York seven years ago - each of them declaring that they couldn't be more wrong
for each other. The fickle finger of fate, however, keeps bringing them back together
over the next seven years, but the timing never seems right. As they struggle
with their different partners, careers and breakups, they go from casual acquaintances
to trusted friends who can say anything to one another. They remain friends throughout
each others doomed attempts to find love and happiness, but as we all know from
watching the trailers, it eventually occurs to them that they have something together
…a lot like love.
I
really shouldn’t have liked this movie as much as I did, as a lot of the
story was so contrived and overplayed, but for some odd reason I found myself
enjoying it. You could almost call the movie "a lot like that romantic comedy
you saw last month," but just different enough to entertain you. The movie
really does nothing to set itself apart from all the other movies just like it,
but it throws just enough of a novel spin on what you are expecting to be marginally
entertaining. For a film of this kind the dialogue was the most disappointing
aspect. Never do they have anything terribly profound to say, but rather tend
to exchange a lot of shallow chit chat, that makes it obvious to anyone with an
IQ over 100 that they would probably be perfect for each other.
I've
defended Ashton Kutcher screen likability in the past and I've also found Amanda
Peet to be quite delightful herself. Certainly neither of them are making much
of an artistic stretch in this film. I for one wish Ashton Kutcher would keep
expanding and showing his talents in movies like the Butterfly Effect and I expect
more from Amanda Peet that the cute loveable, quirky girl she keeps playing. But,
I will say that the two were able to conjur up a nice bit of chemistry together,
which is the main thing that kept A Lot Like Love afloat. What can I say, this
is a decent date movie and turned out to be slightly better than I I expected.
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