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Jan 11, 201320Playing For Keeps is awful – and not in a hilarious Ed Wood way.
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Dec 11, 201220Husbands and fathers, do not try this sh-- at home. Such "lovable" misbehavior is best left to the professional cads.
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30Yet it's not entirely forgettable. I'll long be haunted by Dennis Quaid's manic performance as a palm-greasing dad who seems to be under the influence of bath salts-tweaked-out acting that matches the camera movements.
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0Just stay away. It's awful.
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30Style can be a risky thing in a movie like this, which aspires above all to inoffensiveness. Originally titled "Playing the Field," which was deemed too racy, this rom-com would have been more aptly renamed "Running Out the Clock."
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38Only Biel and Greer lift it above the level of bleh.
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12One of those movies that comes "straight from the heart" - the heart of the hack screenwriter's manual that pushes formulaic structure to cover up a lack of compelling characters, genuine emotion or actual humor.
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38The shenanigans of randy soccer moms and their obnoxious blowhard husbands are intended as comic relief. But the sappy plot of this formulaic romantic comedy is just as silly as its inane attempts at farce.
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25A dreary, dismally unfunny excuse for a romantic comedy.
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25There isn't a moment in the entire picture in which you will recognize an element of your own life.
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16The film is a bedroom farce without the farce, a fish-out-of-water comedy on sun-cracked lake-bed, a story of fatherly redemption that barely gets past the hair-mussing stage.
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38This saga of a former soccer star coaching his son's team in order to worm his way back into the heart of his ex-wife aims to be warm and funny. Alas, it is mechanical and exhausting, like a windup toy of a monkey crashing together cymbals for 106 minutes while incrementally winding down.
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38This isn't a genre-less character study, it's myopic romantic comedy, and watching a woman of Catherine Zeta-Jones's easy carnality and fathomless beauty compete for the attention of Gerard Butler, who's pining for Jessica Biel, is dismaying, like spotting Anna Wintour in line at a soup kitchen.
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30Simply put, it's a mess.
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Dec 5, 201212Gabriele Muccino's film is knee-deep in "don't hate the player, hate the game" territory.
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