It’s fine. It’s not that good, but it’s fine. It is, however, too long, and the character “development” we see towards the end doesn’t make sense, at all; it’s all told to us instead of shown, and it’s like Crowe didn’t decide to start moving the characters along until an hour and a half in and then he had to tack on a bunch of just-trust-me manipulative scenes to do the work for him. The acting is all pretty good, though, to my surprise; clearly Lipnicki has got to go, but Bonnie Hunt is hilarious in this. Overall, decent, but there were scenes that could have lost five minutes each in the editing bay, and should have. (3/28/05)

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