Movies are rated on a Popcorn scale. The best of movies will receive 3 Buckets of Popcorn. The worst won't receive any.
Anything that receives 2.5 to 3 Buckets of Popcorn is considered a Fetch It movie. Go out and buy this one because it is fantastic
Anything that receives 1.5 to 2 Buckets of Popcorn is considered a Catch It movie. Rent this one and see it at least once.
Anything that receives 0.5 to 1 Bucket of Popcorn is considered a Try It movie. I've seen it once and once is enough. If you're curious give it a try. Anything that receives 0 Buckets of Popcorn is considered a Leave It movie. I can't believe that anyone would appreciate this movie and suggest that you avoid it at all costs.

August 22, 2008

No Reservations

Kate (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is the perfectionist chef at an upscale Manhattan restaurant. She is so meticulous and reclusive that her boss, the owner of the restaurant, sends Kate to therapy. Kate’s world revolves around fine food until her sister is killed in a car crash and Kate becomes the guardian of her 10 year old niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin). Kate must now deal with the trials of raising a grief laden girl and a new chef (Aaron Eckhart) hired at the restaurant in an attempt to ease Kate’s stress.

Director: Scott Hicks
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin
Rating: PG
When it comes to romantic comedies “No Reservations” doesn’t crack my top 25. It is a very well intentioned film, however, it falls short of the mark in many areas. Some parts of this movie are done very well and others seem grounded somewhere other than reality. The acting, with the exception of one character, is quite bad and the story as a whole has been overdone. Girl meets Boy. Girl hates Boy. Girl starts to like Boy. Girl gets mad at Boy. Girl and Boy make up. The End. We all know the drill by now.

I began this film thinking it would purely be a romantic comedy and had no idea that Abigail Breslin even had a role in the film. I was excited to see her because she was fantastic in “My Little Sunshine”. My excitement quickly faded as her acting slipped to being nearly as dismal as Catherine Zeta-Jones portrayal of Kate. I liked her in “Entrapment” and “Ocean’s Twelve” but on the whole she’s not one of the better actresses working today. The upside is that Kate and Zoe being played medium-rare at best, seemed to work well together. The problem arises in the scenes between Kate and just about everyone else, especially Aaron Eckhart’s character, Nick. Eckhart is the shining light in this movie. He is growing to be one of my favorite actors. I loved him in “The Dark Knight” and, even though “No Reservations” is not one of my favorite movies, his portrayal of the Zubaz wearing, Italian trained chef is done to perfection.Even though this movie carries a PG rating, I wouldn’t recommend it for young kids at all. I just don’t think it’s entertaining enough to carry the attention of young minds.

I only give this film One Bucket of Popcorn. If you are an Aaron Eckhart fan, give this one a go because he’s great. If you’re a Catherine Zeta-Jones fan, go ahead and TRY IT because it’s about as good as any other movie she’s done.


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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Never really even heard of this one...what if you are an abigail breslin fan...should you go for her performance? :-) I probably won't spend the time watching this cause I rarely watch movies these days anyway...my few movies are a little bigger than this one.

August 31, 2008 at 9:11 AM

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