Secret Admirer

I was glad to see you gave this film a favorable review, I got a kick out of it, and I'm glad you liked it. Alot of times this is the sort of movie you usually trash and it always restores my faith when you go thumbs up on a fluffer. Speaking of which I noticed you never wrote a review for Down With Love, did you not see it?

Adam

Secret Admirer,

I did see Down With Love. I really enjoyed it. It really reminded me of 60's comedies (most specifically Pillow Talk). I enjoyed the look of the picture and really liked it's old school sensibility, although I don't know that I entirely bought into Ewan McGregor. He's a terrific actor, but I think someone like George Clooney would have worked better. Renee Zellweger was perfect. That's interesting that our review isn't up. We'll have to see if we can find it and throw it on the site. And yes, I do enjoy a good fluff film on occasion. In fact, one of my favorite films of 2000 was Bonnie Hunt's magical Return to Me. I love that movie. And while it isn't fluff in every sense of the word, it's certainly light and airy. If you haven't seen it, check it out.

Mitch Paul

I'll have to admit I didn't have the highest expectations for this film, but I would up being quite taken by Garner's performance, and though your point is well taken about it not being as good as Big - it's probably the best movie of it's kind other than Big.

Surprise surprise

I, like yourself enjoyed 13 going on 30 - but I really thought it would come and go in a week particularly when you consider how many other films have been released. Last time I checked it's still in the top 5 and it's been out for over a month.

Way to go JG

Hmm

I'm wondering if the fact that I was equally attracted to Jennifer Garner throughout 13 going on 30 makes me some sort of pedifile? I'm hoping not.

Rapping Grandma

I saw movie. It was good. While I was in the theater I saw people shouting. I told them to stop and then when they did I saw a ghost. It was Napoleon and he told me to take over the world with my army of Ants and catfish. I smoke 10 cigarettes an hour and they make me feel powerful. I'm eating candy from the little girl sitting next to me and it's making her cry. Life is good.

Jenny Parker

Having been forced to sit through 13 Going on 30 endless times thanks to my daughters, I have to say that it's not too bad. Jennifer Garner pulls the film along pretty well and Mark Ruffalo tends to salvage any film he's in. With the exception of that Stewardess movie with Gwyneth Paltrow - no one could have saved that disaster

Sir Dizzy

Jenna Rinks is an awkward 13-year-old girl the singular wish that she could be 30 and glamorous. She dreams of being an adult with life by with the coat tails and not having to deal with all the problems of adolescence. She wants to be in the right crowd, and even dating the right guy with all the wonders of adulthood. So when her best friend Matt also an awkward 13-year-old gives her some wishing dust for her birthday she wishes for all this to happen. And after playing the party game Seven Minutes in the Closet, she emerges from the closet just days shy of her 30th birthday, looking fabulous and feeling fierce. While the adjustment is weird at first she quickly tries to adapt herself to her new lifestyle as she has missed the last 17 years and is not even sure who she is anymore. So she tracks down her old friend Matt and tries to piece together this wonderful life she has inherited. But she quickly finds out its not everything she thought it would be as her former self was callow and the one person that had always been there for her doesn't even know her anymore as she distanced herself from family and friends to achieve her dreams. Now she wonders if her wish might have been a mistake and if there is anyway to go back and fix all the things that went wrong in the years she missed.

If the bubble gum pop music genre could be transferred into a movie, this movie would be it. The movie is bubbly, it is sensuous, and it is not all that bad but at the same time there is really nothing below the surface. The movie is heading for the predictable ending and the happily ever after like a car careening for a cliff's edge, you want to stop it but the brakes seem to have gone out. Part of the problem is the overly used premise of the movie as you know what to expect and there is no surprises in the move, the other part of the problem is that they don't seem to care that they are beating a dead horse to death. The movie is clearly aimed for a particular audience group as it is not ashamed of in the least of being a chick flick. Jennifer Garner will learn from her mistakes, and she will win the heart of the boy she once scorned and that is her true love. What did work about the movie is how well Jennifer Garner was able to pull of a confused teenager trapped in a woman's body, you could almost see her as that awkward 13-year-old girl which says a lot of her acting abilities. It is a shame that the movie could not find her a better script though to shine for though. The movie does have its moments and is funny at times and I am pretty sure the target audience it is aimed for will love the movie and for those of us outside that core group there is just enough hilarity to keep us laughing and not totally disappointed.