Titre français: Un jour peut être
Je l'ai regardé pour Abigael Breslin parceque lui...
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My word this movie is bad.
Author: pipbeale from United Kingdom
26 December 2009
Oh My! this was a waste of time. Although I think the acting is fine, the direction fine etc what really is the point of this film? It is not funny, I cared for none of the characters, there is no drama and it moves so slowly.
I honestly wanted to stop the DVD but i persisted, I wish i had not.With all the flash back stuff as well and everyone looked exactly the same age, not 20 years younger! man, im going to get my mates to watch this.Definitely one of the worst films ever, maybe the worst of all time.
I thought better of Rachel Weiss as well, and although Isla Fisher is cute and I think has a nice rom-com future in front of her, i wish they had both stayed well clear of this work!
Author: dzlz105 from United States
3 September 2009
Don't waste your time seeing this movie. Its plot is far-fetched - what 10-year-old wants to know the seamy story of her father's love life as he's in the midst of divorcing her mother? Does this writer know any children? The premise is slimy.The acting is embarrassingly awful. Everyone reprises roles they've done elsewhere, except for Kevin Kline. How did he end up in this movie?And, worst of all, this movie is too long.
I noticed it was written by Albert Brooks. I have not enjoyed anything he's done since "Broadcast News" (I think that was the name -- it had an excellent Holly Hunter in it). Wait -- "Mother" also had a few good scenes.
Anyway, Albert's creative days are over. He should have been put out to pasture years ago.
Author: Jack_and_Pike from North Carolina
26 February 2008
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
...and the kid's a total caricature.
What child, watching her parents get painfully divorced, would say something like, "Daddy, I just want you to be happy" !??!?? Sure, wreck my life, scar me emotionally and mentally, ruin my faith in the future and in any kind of security. I just want you to be happy. Sacrifice my life for yours. OH WAIT. That's what PARENTS are supposed to do for their children.
Watching this guy try to live his life without any guiding principles, how repulsive. So much worse than those tragic police chases of the disoriented older and no longer safe driver who somehow took the wrong exit and is now traveling into traffic in the wrong lane of the highway. Wrecking innocent lives left and right. But don't worry about other people. Just do what feels right. Follow your heart. It doesn't matter how you screw up your own life, or anyone else's.
Right and wrong exist independently of what people think or believe. You know it in your soul the way you know red is a color, and "this many" is a number. No matter how many people you get to tell you that you're OK, you're doing the right thing, the feeling of wrongness will never, ever go away. The continual need, even demands, for affirmation and acceptance of these damaging actions and lifestyles demonstrate the truth. No words put into a child actress' mouth will make it better. It is one more lie into a never satisfied void. Only the truth will set you free.
This movie was a disgusting train wreck, a farce. Stay home with a copy of "The Death of the Grown-Up" by Diana West, and be afraid. Be very afraid.
Awful, awful, awful!!!! NOT my choice, I have to stress. I don't DO rom-coms, and now I know why. With a thoroughly unlikeable main character and weak and clichéd female leads, "Definitely, maybe' sucks! The only high point of this turkey is Kevin Kline. I think Mr Kline thought he was in another movie altogether! He shines in all his scenes, which are few and far between. Isla Fisher and Rachel Weisz struggle vainly with their pathetic characters and bad lines but with sparse characterisation one is unable to empathise with either of them. Ryan Reynolds is incapable of putting in any kind of performance. Yes, he's pretty, but hello! He CANNOT act!!!!!!! His character is so unlikeable, I'm surprised he managed to pull ANY kind of girl, let alone the quality women who seemed to fall for him. The script is laughably predictable and Miss Breslin, though good, is also clichéd and the ending is pure shmaltz. Please Hollywood, stop insulting us with this tripe.
I was simultaneously stunned and relieved while watching this movie. While, it's an ugly reminder of America's (and in particular, New York's) decline in morality. It's an open testament and reminder to the loose morals of the modern-day Democratic Party and its most ardent followers - which is a very good and timely reminder to Americans as we're going to have to choose our next President very soon.
Much of the movie gravitates around Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and how young supporters adulated and followed him in New York that year, particularly the character played by Ryan Reynolds. What is a bit amazing is how blunt and biased this movie is in its liberal political proclivities. It's so pro-Democrat that they even had old Bill Clinton himself run by towards the end of the film. And one of the movie's 'heroines' worked for the laughably liberal 'Amnesty International'. Republicans are made to look stupid, albeit subtly.
But most importantly, especially in light of John Edwards' recent adultery scandal, this movie is an ironic reminder of how the Democrats will lead us nowhere nationally. Even the Ryan Reynolds character in this film got disillusioned by Clinton. George W. Bush is briefly lampooned at one point in this film but whatever his shortcomings, we didn't have to put up with a bunch of blatant moral failings like Clinton. If you're conservative, take note of how the liberals don't even care filling a poor little girl's head (played by Abigail Breslin) with a bunch of rubbish about messed up relationships. That struck me as bad taste.
A divorced parent's fantasy
I saw this story as some sort of divorced parent's fantasy. If you could just sit your 9 year old daughter down for a couple hours and explain how "complicated" adult life and relationships are, surely she would understand why you and mommy divorced. This includes telling your daughter about sleeping with other women, boozing, smoking, etc.
Of course, your child would suddenly understand and accept that daddy wants to put his penis in another woman other than mommy (note the first 10 minutes of the movie the little girl talks continuously about how a man "thrusts his penis into a woman's vagina", as she has just learned sex ed at school and can't stop talking about it. Funny? Not really).
Not only would your daughter understand you, but she would INSIST that you hook back up with that hottie from your younger days and drag you to her house (instead of dreaming that you get back together with mommy so your family is intact).
Yeah, right, dream on. Keep telling yourself that's what your daughter would do. And oh yeah, your little girl also won't have any problems hearing that her mom had a lesbian relationship with another one of your lays from your younger days, and slept with your roommate to boot. Naw...it's all good. She'll understand.
Seriously, pass on this one. It's also heavily pro-Democrat, as the lead character spends the 90's working for Bill Clinton. At least at the end, even this shallow, self-absorbed character is disgusted at Slick Willie's inability to tell the truth, even though his loser friends about brag about how they would vote for him again in a heatbeat.
And that's the ONLY reason I'm rating it a 2. It's the only redeeming message in this mess.
This was one of the worst movies I have seen. The beginning made me laugh a little. But after the first hour, it felt like the whole movie was repeating itself. And it was so clichéd me and my friends were yelling at the At the T.V. When I saw the commercials I thought the movie might have more of Abagail Breslin. But it showed her in 2 scenes for a total of five minutes. This movie was like the writer was writing the script, and then went in a coma and continued it with a different plot! (comedy/drama) which is boring. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Don't waste your time with this movie, If you want to Abagail Breslin, go see Little Miss Sunshine
Author: dallas_viewer from Dallas/TX/USA
29 July 2008
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Let me qualify that. If you loved 27 Dresses or Dan in Real Life, you'll like this movie. It has the same contrived feel, the same "no one would ever say this stuff in real life" dialog, the same chemistry-free pairings. Within 10 minutes of watching this mess, I was bored and annoyed.
The acting was horrible--though kudos to Isla Fisher for giving it her all under the circumstances, I loved that "Marisa Tomei" kind of quality she had--but how can you really "ding" actors when the scripts they are given are so lame? Reynolds--who I suspect couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, let alone this pile of pooh--admittedly had dialog that no man should have to say. Note to writers of "romantic comedies": Men are not women. Most of them do not talk like women. We do not want to hear them talking like women. (Also, were RR's eyebrows shaped? Because that was just a bit too "metrosexual" for my taste.)
Even Abigail Breslin, the little girl, pretty much phoned it in. There was a scene where she flops onto her tummy in bed, pouting, and suddenly she kicks her feet a bit--not in a natural "I'm having a tantrum" way, but more like she was thinking, "Oh, wait, it would be a good touch if I kicked my feet here."
There is no character development in the movie. Everyone is extremely superficial, annoyingly so. Some events make no sense. (Why did Will get fired for one faux pas in an industry riddled with scandal? And just what all happened, job-wise, between "then" and "now"?)Timing is deliberately kept fuzzy. It's hard to tell how much time has passed. (For example, Will looks about the same to me at the start of Clinton's campaign as he does at the end of the film.)
If you can find a scintilla of originality in this movie, let me know.For example, we get the usual "I want to see your face first thing when I wake up in the morning and last thing at night" spiel at one point.Then we get the done-to-death scene where the female friend tells male protagonist (who's about to propose to another woman) to practice proposing on *her* first, and as he gets to the "I love you" part, his voice trickles off and they stare into each other's eyes for just a moment. And you just know where this is all going...
Why do I torture myself with this dreck?
Author: Roy from United States
14 February 2009
I liked the lead character played nicely by Ryan Reynolds in the beginning of the film and the premise had a certain appeal. Having not seen a good romantic comedy in a long while I thought I'd give it a chance. But when April entered the scene it went straight downhill. It's really hard to root for your hero or leading man when the 'obvious' from the start winner of his love and affection is a cold, nasty, self consumed and snide, neo-conservative witch. Yes. April truly is a girl you can hate. As my mother use to say when I was a boy.
'Beware of women with thin lips.' If only she had lost some of that snide, quick to judge attitude by the end of the picture. If only April changed in some endearing way, maybe showed some inkling of compassion and social responsibility by wearing an Eco shirt or something to demonstrate the expansion of her heart and mind. That would have helped. But there was no arc at all in this picture. Not even for the lead character, Will. In fact I liked him better in the beginning of the picture than I did in the end before he turned into a subservient mushball to Ms. Razor lips.
When the movie began he had passion, dreams and ideals. By the end of the story we see a lonely hearted cynical Will shaking his head with self righteous disapproval at Bill Clinton all because he doesn't stop in the middle of his run to speak to him after Will calls out, "I worked on your 92 campaign." We're suppose to assume that the president would actually jog go over and sit on a park bench to chat with Will? Invite him to lunch? Please get real. A quick wave is about all you can expect from anybody in his position, especially in the middle of a run. Check out Holiday for a good romantic comedy with characters you can actually care about.
The previews made me think this is a comedy. But I laughed a little bit, and then the laughs just quit coming has the movie went on. It's like this movie couldn't decide what it wanted to be, a comedy or a drama. And what happened to Ryan Reynolds here, He managed to save two bad movies from extermination, with his comic timing, and his playful wittiness, and the films I'm talking about are Blade:Trinity(2004), and Waiting(2005), which would not be memorable if not for him, but he just did not have it this time around, it appears for this film, he just quit trying to be impressive.
He plays Will Hayes, a thirty something political consultant, who's going through a divorce, one day decides to tell his 11 year old daughter(played with such charm by Abigail Breslin) on his life, and how he met her mother. Has it goes through the 90's. And it goes through 3 possibilities, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks, and lsla Fisher. But I grew weary has the journey went on, It really became too predicable . I left this film feeling depressed, and annoyed. Although moments between Reynolds and Breslin are sweet, and the three actress's do alright also. Other then that this has nothing else to go on.
