Someone Like You

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Summary: Someone Else Skip This!
Review: Someone Like You is a romantic/comedy. It starts off with Jane (played by Miss Judd) is a booking agent for a television talk show. She is having relationship problems because her boyfriend, Ray (played by Greg Kinnear) does not want to commit to the relationship. So Jane and Ray break-up. Jane then decides to move in with one of her co-workers just to get even at her ex-boyfriend. Jane's co-worker, Eddie (played by Hugh Jackman) is a self-proclaimed wommanizer; who enjoys dating women for casual sex. Both Jane and Eddie live peacefully, together in seperate rooms and each minds their own business. Eddie continues to seriel date lots of strange women throughout the movie and Jane feels lonely, depressed and bitter about her relationship break-up. She then thinks she stumbled onto a good theory about why men are dogs...er actually like bulls and cows. Yes, humans are like bovines acording to this movie's theory (bulls will mate with several different cows, but not the same one). Does this sound romantic to you? Does it sound funny? It's neither romantic nor funny. Because the characters in this movie don't have good chemistry together. They barely seem to relate to each other on friendly terms. A good portion of the movie goes to Ashley Judd who has that wacked-out theory and the rest is about her being depressed. Hugh Jackman acts like a friend towards her but isn't romantic or sexual about it. When both characters realize they love each other at the end of the movie, you'll be scratching your head wondering "WHY?" there was very little character development in this whole movie. The only redeeming value is watching two attractive and popular actors working in the same movie. This movie is as bad as JLO's and Ben Affleck's "Gigli".

The DVD contains deleted scenes and an alternate ending which is not very different from the other one. There are so many other better romantic comedies out there. You should just skip this one.

Rating:
Summary: good movie
Review: The cast in this movie is really cute. The director did a good job of working with the script to bring this to life on the screen. The novel version titled "Animal Husbundry" by Laura Zigman is even better.

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Summary: I cannot help it, I like this movie...I'm sorry
Review: This movie has kind of grown on me. I initially did not like this movie very much because I was put off by Hugh Jackman's character, though, I like the actor a lot. Outwardly he portrays a sort of "man whore". But the more that I have seen this movie, the more that I have "gotten" the humor, the meaning, and the sincerity of Ashley Judd's performance specifically. Ashley Judd really knows how to cry! There are some classic scenes with Judd expressing her hurt and anger from her last boyfriend (Greg Kinear). These expressions include men bashing, missing his scent, getting obsessive about the way males think, and wanting just to be loved "truly" by a man. Ashley Judd really knows how to express herself well and her reactions are both priceless and precious!
The moral is good, I believe, but I do have to agree with some of the other reviewers that her relationship with Hugh Jackman is not developed as it should be. You get a sense of how it is suppose to be, but find it a bit unrealistic to "all of a sudden" figure out who she really loves. I say, "watch it" and you will be able to relate to Ashley Judd's performance because she seems so real despite her "out of the blue" moment.

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Summary: Can we say - Character & Relationship Development
Review: I picked this because of Hugh and Ashley. Greg i figured would be the middle guy in this triangle. Ummmm ok next time more Hugh, less Greg and Ashley could be less shrewish. I hated seeing her like that. And how is she in love with Hugh all of a sudden? yes others have said that, glad to see I wasn't the only one thinking "hugh" where did that come from, even though we knew it would be there but come on! Even the obvious has some relationship development. And why did he get all mad at the end? Bizarre!