3
OK - maybe 3 and a half stars. I really enjoyed it up till about the last half hour. This is a slow, cute, quirky movie and Steve Zahn and Jennifer Aniston were great. I really felt for Zahn's character, who is stuck in a rut and found the movie quite poignant. But it then veers off into the bizarre - with the parachute jump, Woody Harrelson's ridiculous over the top character and the ubiquitous funny new friend. Before it went off the rails, it was really enjoyable. It's as if someone wrote it and then didn't know how to finish it and someone else took over - what a shame.
OK - maybe 3 and a half stars. I really enjoyed it up till about the last half hour. This is a slow, cute, quirky movie and Steve Zahn and Jennifer Aniston were great. I really felt for Zahn's character, who is stuck in a rut and found the movie quite poignant. But it then veers off into the bizarre - with the parachute jump, Woody Harrelson's ridiculous over the top character and the ubiquitous funny new friend. Before it went off the rails, it was really enjoyable. It's as if someone wrote it and then didn't know how to finish it and someone else took over - what a shame.