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Summary: Mediocre romantic comedy at best
Review: With an all-around talented and stellar cast, this movie really should have had a better script. With so much storyline potential, there never was enough character development to truly engage the viewer. I kept wanting to know more about why Hugh Jackman's womanizing character Eddie was the way he was; we are given only a small taste of what drives him. The superbly talented Jackman, however, makes the most of his role, bringing to his character more depth than I thought possible in such a superficially written role. The story is predictable, but there's not necessarily anything wrong with that; watching it, you want it to end the way you know it's going to end.Ashley Judd is immensely likeable as Jane in the first light romantic comedy role I've ever seen her in, and Greg Kinnear is spot-on as the guy who creates Jane's emotional turmoil. Ellen Barkin appears to have had the most fun in her role as a ratings-hungry talk-show host. Judd and Jackman have excellent on-screen chemistry. I just wish the movie delved a little deeper into its characters to make me actually feel what they were feeling; everything was a little too light in its treatment, and therefore held my interest only mildly.
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Summary: The Cow Theory!!!
Review: Jane Goodale (Ashley Judd) bumps into Ray Brown (Greg Kinnear) who she falls in love with. Before she knows it she is tied in an emotional roller-coaster where she is emotionally and financially committed. However, Ray dumps her in a sly selfish manner and it leads her to a cynical introspective theory of why guys want women, which she decides to investigate and publish in an anonymous editorial column. Someone Like You provides an opportunity to observe pessimistic introspection in action through the lens of humor, which in the end leaves the audience with an entertaining episode in Jane's life.
Rating: 
Summary: A Fun Filled Love Story
Review: Let me just start by saying this is not typically the type of movie I would watch, but my sister spoke so highly of it that I thought I would give a try. Once I started the movie I was delighted. Ashley Judd shines in this comedic role and Hugh Jackman is perfect as her leading man. If you like romantic comedies then definetly pick up this DVD. It has heart and a great sound track. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Best Romance Ever!
Review: This movie is great. I would recommend it to any 'hopeless romantics' out there. Ashley and Hugh have absolutely great chemistry together!
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Summary: Typifies the worst type of "Chick Flick" for us gals...
Review: It's sad in a way, that the movie's this bad, because it shouldn't be. The stars are likeable. Production values are good. There are a few witticisms. But right underneath are some really nasty ideas, all of them hugely sexist in that "men are evil" way that gives chick flicks a bad name and should offend anyone who sees them. The plot of "Someone Like You" is simple: "Men are evil. Just kidding. The end." So, OK, the movie isn't the worst ever made. Teeny, tiny Size-Zero Ashley Judd is funny and appealing in the cookie-cutter Meg Ryan part (although her character chomps cookies nonstop through the movie -- like *that's* realistic). Hugh Jackman is likeable and very funny. That's about it. Marisa Tomei is criminally wasted as Ashley's friend (I just hope she got a good paycheck for such a thankless part), but she looks gorgeous. But that's about it. The movie's really sexist at heart, and in a continuing trend, somehow the whole idea that "Men are evil" is supposed to be cute and inoffensive, where any film claiming the opposite would certainly have us women yelling pretty loudly. It's offensive. No, men aren't evil, they're not bulls, and movies like this aren't as smart or witty as they think they are. Which is a shame, because it has a few charming moments in all the hypocrisy that had me wishing they'd simply paid the writer a few bucks for a better film. So much for the "chick flick" theory. We all deserve better than stupid, badly written movies with terrible marketing campaigns and overpaid actresses. I mean, REALLY. When did it become OK for a 2-star movie to get 5 stars simply because people are desperate for a little light entertainment? What if, instead, we said, "Nah, movie's not so good, we deserve better than this cookie-cutter dreck"? Just a thought.
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Summary: Moo.
Review: Because I'm not trying to sell you anything, you can trust me when I tell you that, contra the editorial review here, Tony Goldwyn's *Walk on the Moon* was NOT underrated; it was OVERrated . . . and *Someone Like You* is a mindless waste of your time. The plot concerns a young career woman (an unnaturally chipper and undernourished Ashley Judd) who, after getting burned by a fickle lover, concocts a "New Cow Theory" that compares men to bulls. The premise is that bulls and men are distressingly alike in preferring variety in their sexual lives. Judd realizes that men might even be BIOLOGICALLY DRIVEN to sow wild oats, just as bulls are. Puzzlingly, the movie makes a very big deal over all this, as if it's something that has never occurred to anyone. After an hour of convincing us of this cynical truth ("okay, okay, we get it," we say to ourselves), the movie then blithely does an 180-degree switcheroo and refutes its own theory. The mandatory happy ending is slapdash, trite, and worst of all, utterly (udderly?) unconvincing, considering all we've "learned" about human sexuality. I have a question for the ladies out there: why do you settle for movies like this? You don't have to, you know. Hollywood can do better. Insist on it! . . . i.e., stop dragging your bullfriends to movie theaters and forking over his (or even YOUR) hard-earned dough to the cynical studio execs who have scientifically calculated with sinister exactness the "target demographic" in which you "fit".
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Summary: Sweet and Sassy
Review: Decent romantic fair with Ashley Judd playing a woman so fed up with dating that she creates a theory linking Males to animals. The premises is better than it sounds, with a great leading performance by Huge Jackman and a great supporting role for Marisa Tormie. Definitely give it a try.
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Summary: Great movie!
Review: Despite the mediocre ratings about this movie, I happen to think this movie is great. It's about this woman in her thirties who falls in love with a co-worker only to find that he doesn't want to be attached to her. She is heartbroken and lost and along with a friend, uses a dead woman as a pseudonym for an article, comparing men to animals. Little does she realize that the man isn't the problem. The problem is her and how she feels about herself. It doesn't matter what age a woman is, she is one way or the other going to experience heartbreak but she is also capable of getting herself back on track and not losing herself. That is pretty much what this movie is about.
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Summary: predictable romantic comedy
Review: SOMEONE LIKE YOU offers some new spins on the formulaic romantic comedy, but falls into the same plotline that has been told a thousand times. Jane Goodale (Ashley Judd) is a talk-show talent scout with set ideas about love, sex and men. When she embarks on a doomed relationship with her newly-arrived workmate (Greg Kinnear - NURSE BETTY), she decides to write about her theories on men's "shag 'em and trash 'em" attitude to women under an assumed name. Moving in with her womanising co-worker (Hugh Jackman), Jane has no shortage of creative inspiration in her writings. However, she may just have come across the love of her life... A sort of movie version "Sex and the City", Ashley Judd does her best Sarah Jessica Parker inpersonation, complete with her sex-obsessed best friend (Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei) and her ballsy TV presenter-boss (Ellen Barkin). SOMEONE LIKE YOU is an enjoyable piece of fluff, and starts out with some great ideas, but falls into that rut which makes it indistinguishable from the thousands of romantic comedies which have preceded it.
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Summary: *faints* Hugh Jackman...*swoons*
Review: After watching a few trailers online and hearing the words, "cows" and "Hugh Jackman" together in less than 3 minutes apart, it got me hooked even before I watched the movie. *laughs* Anyway, this is a romantic comedy starring Ashley Judd (Jane Goodall) who falls in love with Greg Kinnear (Ray) and ends up getting her heart broken by that jerk. Her womanizing roomate, Hugh Jackman (Eddie) gives her advice and a shoulder to cry on, and also helps inspire her to write in a collumn in a newspaper about how men are like cows (weird, I know...). Jane ends up falling in love with Eddie in the end, and it's the sweetest thing ever. The ending sort of came in a big rush, like they were trying to wrap things up early, but heh it was still good. Hugh Jackman was absolutely amazing in this movie, and I feel like slapping myself for not learning about him sooner. =)
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