Meet Market

Before renting this film, I read the cast list and expected to watch a hilarious comedy. What I got was a collection of vignettes on the L.A. singles scene. This film truly suffers from lack of plot.

Maybe my television screen isn't large enough to show wrinkles, but I actually thought this film was made years ago because many of the cast members such as Julian McMahon, Alan Tudyk, and Elizabeth Berkley looked younger and in better shape than they have in awhile.

Julian McMahon is believable as a narcissistic,vacuous,soap star. Alan Tudyk was delightful as an average guy looking for a long term relationship. His date with Missi Pyle was the scene that I most enjoyed and even laughed at.

Alisha Tyler's uneven acting made her character charming one moment, and a clueless stereotype, the next. While I could understand the frustrations of Elizabeth Berkely's character, I didn't feel connected to, sorry for her, or even filled with "you go girl!" when she takes matters into her own hands. There just wasn't much there - a better actress or better writing would have pulled me in. The lesbian relationship was sweet, it should have been to been farther developed.

I think I can see what Loventhal was going for here but I felt the writing needed more biting satire, more darkness, to work. A focus on the stories of one or two characters, and more connections between the others would have made a more coherent film.

If you rent this, you won't hate it, but it won't have you rolling on the floor either.

I was first drawn to the movie because of the concept. I love simple ideas but they have to work in the movie. Fortunately this one does. It's cool when it all come together.

We're in a country where one out of four people getting married today met online. This movie should be a dating class at the Annex Learning Center for people who like to meet wacky people in person and not on your computer. Why not just cut out the middle man...

Back to the flick. The actors gave good performances and the story was totally interesting to watch unfold. I watch tons of movies and this one was ten times better than some of the crap I get on Netflix that actually made it to the theaters. Not sure who picks what get's released and what doesn't. Who cares. Bottom line-- good flick. Damn good flick!!!

Not the greatest film, but surely entertaining. With Julian McMahon's moronic, self-obsessed Hutch and Alan Tudyk's dorky personality and failures in love...this movie makes for a great laugh and some fun.

Although the very end left me sad, for reasons you must figure out on your own, and maybe you never will...I still found this movie to be a good find. I'm glad I received it, it lifted my spirits up...plus Julian McMahon cannot look any hotter and be any funnier. His dead-panned lines are delivered so perfectly, and how he continues to stare off in space is absolutely funny. A great cast, a good script...a good flick!

I was somewhat disappointed by the lack of reality. There is an overabundance of sexual appetite that it could be considered a soft-porn film. The cast included the great Christine Estabrook as the Mom. Susan Egan played a lonely Los Angeles attorney who finds happiness in the supermarket with a strange woman. They have endless hours of sex everyday. Julian McMahon played a soap actor in which he was one before he made it big on Nip/Tuck. The story about LA singles and their local supermarket would be better if they refrained from the sex scenes so much. It was too sexual to be realistic. The characters seem caricatures of actual people. The supermarket doesn't ring up once as the backbone of the story. It would have been better if they had incorporated the supermarket to help understand the characters. I should know since I work in a supermarket myself.