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A lot like Love is a story many people can relate to: From chance encounters with people to seeing someone now and again to the dreaded "I'm engaged" answer, this show takes you on a whirlwind of twists and turns.
This is about 2 young people who meet on an airplane, and begin an off and on relationship of sorts over the course of 7 years. They deny their destiny at times, but eventually fate will have it's way.
Kutcher and Peete are great in their roles. We see Peete again in a similiar role like she had in "Saving Silverman" where she is able to act like she doesn't want to give someone the time of day and is very standoff-ish. The two continue to try and meet up at different times but their interest levels at those times do not always conincide so they never seem to get together for the long haul. There is some progressive scenes showing how they affect one another throughout the course of seven years...one being kucher starting out as an avid photographer and later leaving his camera with her, only for her to pick it up and continue on with the hobby, eventually having a studio out of it.
The beginning is funny, the ending sweet and predictable, and everything in between is, as I said, some path's that we can all relate to when it comes to dating. I loved the movie and strongly recommend it for a rainy sunday afternoon at home...
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If you're looking for a fun romantic comedy, this is it. It's very fun to watch, I laughed out loud several times. While it's not quite "Gone With the Wind," it's definitly a good flick.
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Although the ending is fairly scripted, as usual in a romantic comedy, this movie delivers in the sense that many things in life are simply a matter of timing. Ashton Kutcher does a good job if you can keep that voice out of the back of your head saying "Whatever Kelso". I'm an Amanda Peet fan, but I still believe that she does a good job in this movie. The little hook that gets her to change her mind to go back to her fling/flame (Kutcher), is pretty weak, but that's a boo to the writers, not the actors. An entertaining date movie, which is probably what it was aiming for.
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A lot like love is a really cute movie about missed opertunities. Kutcher and Peet are not the best, but they're still a good pair.
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The time-honored Hollywood formula for romantic comedies gets a nice workout here. First you have to have "Boy meets girl, cute." Well, it's hard to get cuter than the guy starts to walk out of the bathroom at thirty-seven thousand feet and gets shoved right back in by the girl who locks the door behind her and initiates him into the mile-high club. (Considering that it was Amanda Peet doing the shoving, how lucky can a guy get?)
Next you've got to have kinky and cute--either the guy or the girl. Amanda Peet as Emily is clearly cute and (ahem, kinky), while Ashton Kutcher, the ditzy but adorable heartthrob of TV's "That Seventies Show," plays it mostly straight as still-living-at-home Oliver Martin. It seems that she was just on the rebound as she rushed him into the mile-high club, so it didn't mean a thing. She was just proving to herself that she is still attractive. And so, dude, good-bye.
Yes, you've got to have complications, lots of them, to keep the lovers apart until the final reel. Shakespeare had 'em. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy had 'em, Audrey Hepburn had 'em, and God knows Meg Ryan and various beaux had 'em galore. Here Emily really doesn't see Oliver as quite the alpha male she had in mind, but three years later when she finds herself dumped and without a date for New Year's Eve she comes across his phone number (he wanted her to call him in six years to find out that he was a great success with a beautiful wife, etc., and no longer living at home). So she calls and asks him out.
Well, enough about the specifics of the plot. It doesn't matter. The plot is just a way to throw them together so that they find out after many mishaps, heartbreaks, misadventures and just plain old-fashioned boy and girl fun that they are truly in love. After all wasn't it the Bard who said that "The course of true love never did run smooth"? (from A Midsummer-Night's Dream)
Although I am a little (just a little) too old for this movie, I did find it enjoyable. Peet is as pretty as pretty has any right to be, and tall, handsome Kutcher has an infectious, likable quality about him, so even though the movie was not as clever nor as smart as some romantic comedies, it was nonetheless a step above eye candy, and a nice diversion for a dateless Saturday night--or actually, I think it would work even better as a first-date kind of movie or even a been-married-for-five-years movie for the both of you. But beware guys, this IS a chick flick.
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