PICTURE PERFECT -- a film review by Justin K. Siegel
Oh no, this was a chick flick!
Of course I knew this going in. Why is it that whenever a TV-star makes a movie it's always a romantic comedy, and then they say on Entertainment Tonight or something, that they were "attracted to the characters. They were really original."
Original?! Let me give you a run-through of PICTURE PERFECT: Character A) Kate (Jennifer Aniston, from tv's FRIENDS), a smart, beautiful, professional woman wants two things she can't have: a new job-title and the love of her co-worker Kevin Bacon. Her boss will only give her the job if she gets married and gets a mortgage and gets a lease on a German sportscar, and Kevin Bacon pnly sleeps with married or involved girls. WHat does she do? She invents a fiance! Then when everyone wants to meet him, she tells some poor schmoe she met at a wedding that she will pay him $1000 to pretend to be in love with her for a company dinner, and pick a fight with her at the end, thus breaking the engagement but still being able to keep her job, since the guy ends up looking like a jerk and she is the poor, defenceless female. He, of course, goes along with it.
Gee, I wonder if they get together in the end. I've seen more original stuff on the WB. And better stuff too. PICTURE PERFECT also makes the mistake of being _wayyyyy_ too long at 100 minutes, and expecting us to like Aniston's character, who comes off as a cold, spoiled bitch.
This was a chick flick!
D+ (report card) # (out of 10) * ½ (0 to ****)
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