otterman62

So whats wrong with this movie IMO?

The music - its AWFUL, opera style that had us turning the sound down several times. Whoever wrote the music should be covered in something that badgers hate and dropped into a pit of badgers.

The script - not funny enough, not enough genuine good lines.

Many of the cast. I have a face like a smacked ar$e and i dont want to see the same in a film like this. Geraldine Viswanathan and her trog like crew are not attractive enough for a film like this.

Language - I swear like a trooper but a lot of the swearing in this film is unnecessary.

What is right in the film?

Will Ferrell does his best.

Reese Witherspoon is very attractive, although her character is very unpleasant.

My wife is one of the easiest to please viewers in the world and even she said that this was very disappointing.

I charming film for a Sunday afternoon. A group of men suffering from TB are grouped together in a sanatorium ( do they still have sanatoriums?) while they recover. The final test of that recovery being able to walk "twice round the daffodils" in the garden. This is not a serious medical drama but a lighthearted romp with much chasing of Nurses, etc etc. Some very familiar faces , especially to Carry On fans, here. The script could have done with some more jokes but Juliet Mills is charming, Donald Sinden is on great form. It has to be said that Donald Houston's acting in the early scenes as a tough guy miner is awful, but overall a nice film you could watch with the family.

I gave this 1/10 because i don't think you can give a minus score. Where to begin? I like a nice rom com, i don't expect a Spielberg masterpiece but I do expect basic competency. I wanted to start with a special mention for Chelsea Ellis Bloch who apparently cast this movie. How she managed to get so many people with no chemistry whatsoever is remarkable. I was struggling to find a way to comment on Brooke Shields appearance but i am grateful to another reviewed who pointed out that she now looks like Caitlyn Jenner , which says it all. The idea of men falling immediately for her is ludicrous. Her daughter Miranda Cosgrave cant act and doesnt have the looks to carry a rom com. If i find Benjamin Bratt in anything i always feel that they werent able to get anyone decent. Mr Bratt seems to think that having a sculpted six pack is a substitute for any charm or talent. This will probably be viewed as sexist but i always think that its a problem in a rom com when the male leads (Bratt/Cruz) have bigger busts than the female leads. There is no witty dialogue, Shields and Cosgroves characters have no charm whatsoever and the slapstick is so obvious that my wife predicted one of the incidents before it happened . Awful film, which is such a pity, the location is beautiful and with a better script and a different cast it could have been worth watching.