Kate Hudson has a wonderful backside and it is lovingly photographed in this Gen X comedy about the fear of aging. She’s OK in the part but doesn’t have much to do: this is one of those films written by people who don’t seem to like women, they either fear or objectify them.
Owen Wilson in fine form as the perennial slacker who has a crush on Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (cute idea). Matt Dillon isn’t quite right as the husband, though Michael Douglas is a delight.
The writers should have looked at Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple – it’s not enough just to throw an odd one into the mix and have a series of incidents, you need a plot to act as the spine (in the Odd Couple it was trying to pick up the Pigeon sisters). Without it, things quickly go tiring.
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