Comedy

A mostly TV director, Miguel Arteta made a great film with one of the new generation’s most brilliant actors, Michael Cerra.

The script was quite intelligent, with doses of incredibly funny, laugh out loud moments!

Spoiler Alert: Fred Willard takes his shirt off!

Laws of Attraction (DVD)

A movie starring Pierce Brosnan is bound to attract attention, law numero uno. Julianne Moore rates the bright lights herself. But the attraction between these two bright lights seems to dim as the movie progresses. Perhaps it is simply the age-old truth that the chase is more fun than the kill. Perhaps they didn’t like each other in real real life.

Whatever, the scenes where Miss Woods (Moore) was cutting Rafferty (Brosnan) into fine little pieces so she could sweep him under the rug were well done. As were the scenes where Rafferty soused up Woods, or in some other way connived to get her into his bed. If they were in fact two wee-heeled, successful lawyers, I would recommend they find the nearest AA meeting, forget the laws of attraction, and practice the 9 steps.

I was hoping for a corny chick flick I could enjoy with a nuked bag of popcorn and a diet pop, and actually did enjoy the first three-quarters of the story. The court battle that took them back to Ireland, the phony minister who had performed their marriage, the reconciled rock-band singer and his designer wife just seemed too contrived.

At any rate, given the amount of trust between the two of them, I don’t think the resulting marriage will make it through the first year. Much as I didn’t make it through the last quarter.