Yes, Freddie Prinze Jr. has done it again. He has made another monstrosity of a movie. In all fairness, however, it would be unfair to place all of the blame of Prinze himself. There are of course other people to blame, for instance the screen writer and the director. But Prinze and his co-stars have to take a lot of the blame as well.
First of all, what to say about Prinze. This is another fantastic performance in the fine tradition of his other great works, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Wing Commander, the absolutely horrid Boys and Girls, and about anything else he is in.(The House of Yes, and She's All That, are exceptions) First of all he can't act. He is supposed to have an accent, or he isn't, I'm not that positive because it comes in and out. In certain scenes it is very evident, and in others it is non-existent. And in any scene that requires real emotion, well, I challenge you to not burst out in laughter. It is hard.
His main co-star, Jessica Biel does little here to further her career. She cries a lot, and spurts out cliched dialogue that should drive anybody up the wall. The rest of the actors, Lilliard, Blucas and Valderrama are sorely underused. What dialogue they get isn't important to anything that goes on in the movie. And I'm not sure about Brian Dennehy. I saw him talking, but I'm not sure if he was acting or mourning the death of his career. Either way, I'm sure he was only in the movie because he needed the money. Poor poor Brian Dennehy.
The story is executed in an absolutely horrible manner. The movie has scene after scene, which just ends up feeling more like unrelated event after unrelated event. Everything was choppy. The romance between Prinze and Biel was excessively choppy. The baseball scenes were some of the worst I may have seen in my life as well. All of the characters are underdeveloped, and there are just way to many characters as it is. The ending is horribly predictable, but by that point you won't really care anyway.
The direction was some of the worst I have seen of late. The acting was bad, and the director should have done something to clear that up. There were way to many slow motion shots, and way way way too many 360 degree camera shots. The actors always seem a bit distant and everything feels a bit forced. There is no tact, it all just happens because, I figure, it says in the script that something is supposed to happen.
On the upside, some of the acting and dialogue are so bad that you are bound to get a few good laughs out of the movie. But you laugh for the same reason you would laugh at Godzilla, because it is just soooo bad. No matter how you look at it though, all I can say is poor poor Brian Dennehy. 2 out of 10.
First of all, what to say about Prinze. This is another fantastic performance in the fine tradition of his other great works, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Wing Commander, the absolutely horrid Boys and Girls, and about anything else he is in.(The House of Yes, and She's All That, are exceptions) First of all he can't act. He is supposed to have an accent, or he isn't, I'm not that positive because it comes in and out. In certain scenes it is very evident, and in others it is non-existent. And in any scene that requires real emotion, well, I challenge you to not burst out in laughter. It is hard.
His main co-star, Jessica Biel does little here to further her career. She cries a lot, and spurts out cliched dialogue that should drive anybody up the wall. The rest of the actors, Lilliard, Blucas and Valderrama are sorely underused. What dialogue they get isn't important to anything that goes on in the movie. And I'm not sure about Brian Dennehy. I saw him talking, but I'm not sure if he was acting or mourning the death of his career. Either way, I'm sure he was only in the movie because he needed the money. Poor poor Brian Dennehy.
The story is executed in an absolutely horrible manner. The movie has scene after scene, which just ends up feeling more like unrelated event after unrelated event. Everything was choppy. The romance between Prinze and Biel was excessively choppy. The baseball scenes were some of the worst I may have seen in my life as well. All of the characters are underdeveloped, and there are just way to many characters as it is. The ending is horribly predictable, but by that point you won't really care anyway.
The direction was some of the worst I have seen of late. The acting was bad, and the director should have done something to clear that up. There were way to many slow motion shots, and way way way too many 360 degree camera shots. The actors always seem a bit distant and everything feels a bit forced. There is no tact, it all just happens because, I figure, it says in the script that something is supposed to happen.
On the upside, some of the acting and dialogue are so bad that you are bound to get a few good laughs out of the movie. But you laugh for the same reason you would laugh at Godzilla, because it is just soooo bad. No matter how you look at it though, all I can say is poor poor Brian Dennehy. 2 out of 10.