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I have seen quite a few problems regarding this film. Yet, I'd like to begin with something positive, so I have to say it is not that long and it can be considered to be... well, viewable... by most standards. Like some soap commercial. It tells you something about a soap in a most straightforward manner and that's it. In other words, you probably won't fall asleep watching "Larry Crowne". And that's about that. On the other hand, the list of "issues" this film has to offer is very long. First of all, I have seen it listed here and on some other places as a comedy. Comedy should, by definition, be at least somewhat funny. This film has exactly two places I have found a little bit funny. Not overwhelmingly-hysterically-over-the-top funny, but just funny. There are some melodramas that contain more humor than this "comedy". Secondly, the plot is a mishmash of several subplots vaguely related to each other. For example, the main problem at the beginning of the film is related to Larry losing his job. This problem becomes solved out of nowhere in the middle of the film. You can say this is a MacGuffin used to start up love story. But I think it's not the case. This dead-end story about Larry losing his job is here only to try to relate to millions of Americans who have recently lost their jobs. I am from Serbia, so I cannot relate to that problem, and watching it from the side, it becomes even more obvious that there is no explanation for this part of the plot. Then, there is a story of friendship with a much younger girl, and that part of the story looks just pathetic. There is no psychological explanation for that friendship, her "motorcycle gang" is composed entirely of no-name characters and literally none of them speaks a single word. Then, there is a love story. The main story. If there was a filmed love story with less on-screen chemistry, I have missed it. I just don't get it. Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks look like people from different dimensions, or, to be more precise, from entirely different films. Which leads to one of the main problems - acting. Tom Hanks is a great actor, he has proved that fact many times. But, obviously, he needs a director he won't be able to see only in mirror. His acting is flat, I wasn't sure if Larry was retarded or a genius, if he was unconfident or overly confident, I don't know what attracts him to Julia Roberts' character and vice versa, I know nothing about him. The director Hanks and the actor Hanks together work upon creating a totally inexplicable changes in characterization. Roberts, on the other hand, is a little better, yet again, far from her best. The other actors don't have much to offer, but I would say that Rami Malek and George Takei use their chances to make likable characters. Yet, that's far from enough. The whole film is a mess and just doesn't work neither as a comedy, nor a romantic comedy, nor a drama, it just doesn't work. And there are far too many problems regarding this film to say there was something that could have made this film better. It was irreparable from the very beginning, it's incoherent, slow and empty. And if you want to see it, think once again, that would be my most sincere suggestion.

I can sincerely say this has to be one of the worst movies I have seen in my life. The script seems absolutely unplanned, or, in the best case, written on a pack of cigarettes; the dialogue, which is meant to be funny, is simply idiotic and vulgar; the directing is poor and trying to provoke the puritans, but even this remains nothing but a pathetic attempt, while the acting varies from quasi-intellectual to plain yelling and swearing. I am very sorry I have spent 20 minutes watching this rubbish, so I had no doubts what to do with this file in my computer - go to the hell for the bad movies, Recycle Bin, and make space for something valuable.

In a nutshell: Avoid at any cost!!!