I Could Never Be Your Woman [2007]

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5022153100074 Format: PAL Label: High Fliers Manufacturer: High Fliers Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: High Fliers Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2008-07-14 Running Time: 93 Studio: High Fliers Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Wanted to like it... more than I did Comment: I like Michelle Pfeiffer. I like Paul Rudd. I liked Amy Heckerling's writer/director work on'Clueless', and can appreciate a cameo by Wallace Shawn. I was really rooting for this film to be one of those undiscovered gems that didn't really make it big anywhere... until it got to dvd. Sadly, that wasn't to be. There are lots of very likeable aspects to this film: the performances turned in by Michelle Pfeiffer as 40-something TV writer/producer Rosie and Paul Rudd as the (AHEM!!!) 29-year old comedy actor Adam who attracts her attention, falls for her and creates her a lot of stress in the process. The relationship between Pfeiffer and her screen daughter is also a high point. 'I Could Never Be Your Woman' is both a mature and an immature film, and the actors and Heckerling clearly have fun with this interplay. But at times the audience gets left behind. I truly disliked Tracey Ullman's performance as a bitter, somewhat vengeful 'Mother Nature' and - until the end credits rolled and I realised that the film had been partially made at Pinewood - was highly confused by the influx of British comedians and actors sporting dubious 'American' accents. Arguably the worst elements of this film, however, are to be found centred around the 'comedy' show "You Go Girl" that Rosie scripts and for which Adam is up for a part. Although it's easy to see why such a show would be up for axing, it's hard to imagine even in a fictional context any good reason for a poor cousin of "Saved By the Bell" ever to have been commissioned. Customer Rating: Summary: Watch this with your teenage daughter, she'll love it! Comment: No great insights admittedly but I really enjoyed this film. It's light hearted with great performances from Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd and newcomer Saoirse Ronan before she made Atonement. My 13 year old daughter loves this film and really thinks the mum and daughter relationship is cool. It's a chick flick, but a really good one! Customer Rating: Summary: The best thing about this film is the music, enough said??? Comment: Michelle Pfeiffer is an actress that I like and admire alot, but for some reason here she looks uncomfortable and when she laughs it strikes me a sounding really false too. I've not seen much of Paul Rudd I have a number of films that he appears in, but only in small supporting roles, the film tries to make a star out of a limited actor and most of his attempts at humour fall flat too. The British actors which include Tracy Ullman are given very little to do which is a huge shame as I've seen all of the actors in various shows and they ARE funny people, also Jon Lovitz is another actor who I really enjoy watching, again he's no more than a bit part actor here. I thought that the music was easily the best thing about the film which is a huge shame as most of the cast are very talented people, but poor writing, directing and mis-casting all lead to one thing - a direct to DVD film!!!, there are some good films out there that have also gone straight to DVD, this is not one of them. An okay film on the whole, but it never really grabbed me, dissapointing, if you're curious I'd recommend renting before any potential purchase. Customer Rating: Summary: I know all of this sounds intriguing, but don't. Really don't. Comment: It would be interesting to find out exactly what went wrong with Amy Heckerling's I Could Never Be Your Woman. Slamming straight to dvd in most of the world, this May to December romance with a satirical wink towards the politics of US network television seems unfinished, with poor pacing, stilted editing and irritating shot choices. Heckerling previously directed the flawless Clueless and underrated Loser as well as the cult Fast Times at Ridgemont High so obviously has some idea of what a proper film looks like. Having created all of those films, could she really have decided that this was finished or did the studio fire her? Though Michelle Pfeiffer sparkles as usual and has some convincing chemistry with her on-screen pubescent daughter Saoirse Ronan, Heckerling somehow manages to make Paul Rudd (playing her toy boy) seem like the least charismatic actors around, employing almost every unspeakable cliché imaginable to indicate their romance. She the older woman, he's a young buck, so it uses The Graduate as a point of comparison even to the point of having Rudd say glibly at one point: "Mrs Robinson, I think you're trying to seduce me." Oh do sod off. And just what is Tracey Ullman doing there as a kind of imaginary conscience for Pfeiffer dishing out advice apparently with the glow of a desk lamp following her around? One of the other chief irritation is that since it was partially shot at Pinewood, so a raft of our comedy actors stroll past the frame in a series of minor roles. Look there's David Mitchell playing an English comedy writers! Steve Pemberton as the studio censor! Sarah Alexander using an admittedly pretty decent American accent as a conniving secretary! Graham Norton playing Pfeiffer's gay best friend and camp fashion designer! Even rent-a-face Mackenzie Crook sits on screen for a few minutes as a rude producer and with Ed Byrne appearing fleetingly as a delivery boy, it starts to look like a pilot for the new series of Carry On films. I know all of this sounds intriguing, but don't. Really don't. Unpredictably, about the only point of interest is for Doctor Who fans since Yasmin Paige, Maria from The Sarah Jane Adventures oddly plays Ronan's best friend and sings along to a cover parody of Alanis Morissette's Ironic, which is admittedly one of the few genuinely funny scenes. There's also a slow pan across the cover of Cult Times advertising the return of the Cybermen in Season Two. Though quite what that magazine is doing amongst the fashion mags on Pfieffer's table in LA is anyone's guess. Other than that it's a godawful drift through a world were an unfunny Saved By The Bell knock-off appears in prime time (at least until its cancelled) and Henry Winkler still goes through life doing Fonz impressions. Customer Rating: Summary: Delightful Comment: Even if you dont find this film funny you can spend 100 min pointing at the screen going, oh god thats.. " ". Like Penellopy, also released recently, this film is partly filmed in London, UK but makes no effert to show it (so why bother?), there is also a load of Brits like Graham Norton, the guy from peep show, the guy from League of Gentlemen and the kid from Attonement, most of which trying to fake an American accent. Again why, Americans (bar Gwenith) try to be British! More Reviews