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In Her Shoes 5/10
I have quite a high tolerance of a lot of female-targeted romcoms - I actually like a few and have watched them multiple times - but this one's nasty. It's really, really boring mostly because the characters are neither identifiable or likeable. Two sisters - Toni Colette and Cameron Diaz, both very shallow, vapid women - fall out then make friends again with the help of their equally unpleasant long-lost grandmother (Shirley MacLaine). Half of this film is set in a retirement community - just as tedious as you'd imagine - and the third act drags worse than anything I've seen ages. If a 'comedy' film lasts for more than two hours (as this one does) it better have a damn good reason to - this one doesn't. The extra time's used to explain all sorts of secrets and cover-ups that happened in the history of the awful family. The whole story is so trite and uninteresting that it seems absurd to expect an audience to sit through any more than about an hour and twenty minutes. This lasts for TWO HOURS and ten minutes. In that time I could have watched something really good, like the Lion King, AND and had something to eat.
Office Space 7/10
This is 10 years old now but didn't seem as dated as I was expecting. Pretty broad, easy-going comedy which I can neither find serious fault with nor get really enthusiastic about.
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