Posted by Dianne Brooks on Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Wasn't as bad as it could have been but, sadly, did suffer from the not funny enoughs. It had the stench of too many (producer') notes all over it. When is Hwood going to stop making movies by committee? They just turn out to be so bland and spineless it's pathetic. Cameron Diaz has all the slapstick willingness to make an ass of herself that Lucille Ball or even Jennifer Saunders/Joanna Lumley have yet she's not given truly funny material. Here she's kinda funny but she's held back from being too, too broad. She does drugs, doesn't teach, steals car wash money, but somehow it's not outrageous. Lucy Punch steps into the silly though and steals some scenes, but then again, British.