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I like this movie. Or, I like parts of it. I consider this movie much like a chess game. Some moves work. Some just really, really didn't. Julia Roberts plays the same charecter that she always plays. The impossibly cute "creeper girl" who kind of gets buy at first, until it dawns on nearly every male charecter in the movie that they're in love with her. She does it well, but for as many movies as she's done, she should. John Cusak. Having never been much of a John Cusak fan, I didn't really know what to expect. His role was I think the most exhaustive of the movie, but he did well with it, and by the end of the movie, I wanted to go rent everything else that he'd been in, so I could see if he was as good in all his other films! By the time the movie ended, I wanted to gouge Catherine Zeta-Jones eyes' out with forks. She's either the most amazing actress in the world (her charecter was uber-b***h), or she really has some personal experience in that area. Hank Azaria was a waste of space for this movie. Donning a little bronzer (he played a spanish man, and he's not particularly dark complected in real life) and a absurd spanish accent (pronouncing 'junket' as 'honk it', for example) he just basically takes away film time from the other actors. Seriously. I can't figure out any other purpose for the guy. Billy Crystal serves much the same function that Julia Roberts serves. "Just play the same charecter you play in every movie, and you'll be fine" he's just as sarcastic and wise cracking as ever, but I think he had better sucess in the past, having better "bouncing boards" if you will, than Seth Greene and whoever that man was that played the head of the studio. Basically, if you like any of these actors, you'll like it because their in it, but if your going for the story, be patient. It'll get there...

Of what? You might be asking yourself. Well...not a darn thing, to tell you the truth. Although this is The MAN show, I tuned in the other day, simply to see Adam Carolla (IMHO, one of the funniest men on telivision today) outside the Loveline format that made him famous. This show is hilarious - I love this show. And yes, as the name "Theresa" would suggest, I am not a man. This show is about not really taking yourselves very seriously. And since they call it The Man Show, it is mostly about men not taking themselves to seriously. Like (and anyone that saw the most recent episode will know what I'm talking about) the 3 quater a$$ shorts? Please! The only part of the show that is excessivly male is the "Juggies" dance squad, but even that can be dismissed as laughable.