Rating: Summary: Hits and Misses Review: Tom (Ashton Kutcher) is smitten with Lisa (Tara Reid). But he just cannot get himself to talk to her...mostly because she is his boss' daughter, and her father is an uptight jerk. The premise is this. Lisa asks Tom to come over to her house. He thinks it is a date, but it is really to house-sit and watch a bird. Of course, everything goes wrong. A cast of crazy characters starts coming out of the woodwork. A disgruntled employee, a drug dealer, an old man and his young wife, and the girl from down the street. The movie was funny, but the story was undeveloped. When a gag began pushing its end, another one came in. Instead of focusing on tension between Tom, Lisa, and Lisa's dad, it goes off on many tangents. While they are all funny, there are too many subplots for a 90 minute comedy. The title is 'My Boss's Daughter', but she is hardly in the movie. And the uptight boss is absent most of the time, too. I think this is another case of 'Let's edit this to a PG-13! so more people can see it.' Story: ** Acting: **** (I am still trying to figure that one out, myself.) Humor: **** [I had to subtract ½ star for the gag involving the girl from down the street, and another ½ star because there is nothing funny about (attempting) suicide.] Based on these things, I give 'My Boss's Daughter' 3.33 stars. The more I think about it, the more disappointed the movie makes me-reduced to 3 stars.
Rating: Summary: Sooo Funny Review: With a cast like the one starring in this comedy how can it go wrong? It doesn't and is actually a funny romp filled with pranks and antics.
Ashton Kutcher plays a quiet young man secretly carrying a crush on his boss's daughter, Tara Reid. The boss is a rigid, angry business man who expects perfection and no errors; he is perfectly cast and played by Terence Stamp. The story begins with Kutcher accepting a house-sitting job for Reid believing he was going to have a date instead. He is given strict rules and regulations on what not to do in the house by his boss, he is to feed and doctor a pet owl (with all sorts of neurotic behaviors), leave no damage to anything and protect the house from invaders (despite a bear trap on the lawn meant to do so). Needless to say all hell breaks loose when a cast of characters shows up filled with comedic havoc (Andy Richter, Molly Shannon, Michael Madsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Carmen Electra and Dave Foley).
This film is filled with great comedy, silly antics and a constant stream of characters that will keep you laughing from beginning to end. Kutcher shines as the inept hero and the other comedians perfect their odd roles and bring them to hilarious life, get ready to laugh!
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