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Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

SnoopyStyle Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter) is an art restorer. She moves into an apartment with four models (Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah Murdoch, Tomiko Fraser) after she finds her boyfriend in bed with a model. She falls for the next door neighbor Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze Jr), but she sees him commit a murder Rear Window style.Monica Potter is trying to break into new territory as a comedian who does pratfalls. She isn't very successful. She's a good looking woman who has specific skills. None of it makes her a comedian. The models are ridiculous. The saving grace is that they are all fairly likable actors. The rom-com has some good potential but they switch over to Rear Window pretty quickly. The Rear Window stuff gets into the way.The flip side is if this was going for a Rear Window rework. Then it'd be better to skip all the silly comedic stuff. And the ending goes seriously dark. How does that work?

Devotchka Head Over Heels is a brainless and totally forgettable movie, but it works well for a midnight showing on USA. I wouldn't pay a cent to see it, but I don't regret having blown two hours on it. It's an awkward and weird comedy, too, one that made me wonder whether I was actually awake while watching it. Looking over the comments confirms my fear: yes, there is a scene where the dumb ingenue gets humped by a giant dog. (We're not just talking her leg here, either.)Very, very creepy. Not funny. The dog in question is being walked by Freddie Prinze Jr, and the unfortunate woman is the breathlessly ditzy Monica Potter. Is this supposed to serve as a romantic "meet cute"? (To use Ebert's term!) Blech. The supermodels are nice eye-candy but not terribly entertaining or charismatic, though they seem to enjoy poking fun at their industry. That fact alone makes them a lot more personable. The "dumb model" jokes get old fast, though. Yeah, yeah, we know that they're ditzy. The fact that they seem completely out of touch with reality is a little more amusing, but there's only so many times you can make the same crack about plastic surgery.I'm not totally sure where all the comparisons to Rear Window come in, incidentally. The plot is completely and entirely different with the exception of the fact that both movies involve a potential murder and a window. C'mon, people--if you think that Head Over Heels is anything like Rear Window, you weren't paying attention to one or both of them.The movie does go downhill fast, though, going from entertainingly stupid to boring and disjointed about halfway through. Freddie Prinze Jr. doesn't help, of course; in 2001 he was just the flavor-of-the-month as far as romantic leads go. He's not very talented. Monica Potter isn't much better; she's basically a low-rent version of Julia Roberts with a smaller and less demonic mouth. (But seeing as how I don't like Roberts either, maybe I'm not the best person to ask.) The movie attempts to make her seem like the intelligent roommate, but she comes out looking like an insecure moron whose main charm comes from the fact that she's clumsy and falls down a lot. How in the world does someone like her get a job restoring 600 year old paintings? Seriously now.

headova_heels I really did enjoy this movie! I have seen it about 11 times now and I love it, Freddie Prinze Jr really suits the character Jim Winston, not mention how cute he looks in a suit! Monica Potter seems like a very good actress and I do hope she does continue making movies like this one. Also, I really liked the way the four roommates are presented, they all have very different personalities like Candy is a typical blonde Australian, Roxana is a really funny Russian woman, Jade has an obsession with large diamonds and Holly is the friendly laid back girl. I'm not too impressed with the plot type thing, I feel that the writers could have thought up something different for what Amanda (Potter) saw through Jim's window. But that didn't ruin the movie for me, I enjoyed the little laughs that were in the movie and the hyperness of the roommates. I recommend this film to anyone who like the typical romantic comedies.Amanda x x x

sherrypie5 Unfortunately this movie didn't do well when it came out, possibly because people didn't think Freddie Prinze, Jr was someone who knew how to pick his parts. Who could blame them, with movies like Boys and Girls to his name. However, I found this movie to be very entertaining. I still find myself laughing whenever I watch it again. The only problem with this movie is that the writers spent more time and creative juices on the jokes than the actual plot and the movie goes downhill after Monica Potter and Freddie Prinze, Jr have sex. Bottomline, if you're in dire need of a good laugh this is a good movie to see. If you want something more substantial, watch an Ed Norton flick.