Everything about "Because I Said So" screams out generic chick flick and we do mean scream, literally from the forgettable title to the excruciatingly corny ending.
January 31, 2007 (Press Release) --
In between, director Michael Lehmann runs through a veritable checklist of cliches. (Is it possible this is the same man who made the deliciously vicious "Heathers" nearly 20 years ago?)
There are the unbelievable characters who say and do contrived, sitcommy things. The montages of shopping and furniture rearranging. The caffeinated score to punctuate all those wacky moments (Diane Keaton discovering online porn). The gaggle of women discussing their sexual hijinks with "Sex and the City"-style bluntness. And of course, the repeated cutaways to a cute dog reacting to all this shrill nonsense.
If there's a cake and there are several, with Keaton and co-star Mandy Moore both playing caterers you know it won't be long before someone's face gets smushed into it. The gag isn't all that funny the first time. That's the kind of movie this is.
Keaton stars as Daphne Wilder. (An homage to Billy? Let's hope not.) She's an overly meddlesome, highly emotional mother of three grown daughters who worries that her youngest, Milly, will stay single the rest of her life. Which is silly, because she looks and sounds just like Mandy Moore. But such is the premise in the script from Karen Leigh Hopkins and Jessie Nelson ("Stepmom"), who write women as if they'd never even met one.
Daphne's other two daughters (Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo) are married off at the film's start, with Milly functioning as the perpetual bridesmaid a role she doesn't seem to mind, but one that sends her mother into hysterics.
So naturally, Daphne does what any mother would do: She crafts an Internet ad for Milly and secretly arranges the girl's dates. (This leads to yet another staple of the genre, the bad-first-date montage.)
Of all the men she meets in a chic hotel lobby bar, two would-be suitors emerge who are so vastly opposite, it's obvious whom we're meant to root for from the start.
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There are the unbelievable characters who say and do contrived, sitcommy things. The montages of shopping and furniture rearranging. The caffeinated score to punctuate all those wacky moments (Diane Keaton discovering online porn). The gaggle of women discussing their sexual hijinks with "Sex and the City"-style bluntness. And of course, the repeated cutaways to a cute dog reacting to all this shrill nonsense.
If there's a cake and there are several, with Keaton and co-star Mandy Moore both playing caterers you know it won't be long before someone's face gets smushed into it. The gag isn't all that funny the first time. That's the kind of movie this is.
Keaton stars as Daphne Wilder. (An homage to Billy? Let's hope not.) She's an overly meddlesome, highly emotional mother of three grown daughters who worries that her youngest, Milly, will stay single the rest of her life. Which is silly, because she looks and sounds just like Mandy Moore. But such is the premise in the script from Karen Leigh Hopkins and Jessie Nelson ("Stepmom"), who write women as if they'd never even met one.
Daphne's other two daughters (Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo) are married off at the film's start, with Milly functioning as the perpetual bridesmaid a role she doesn't seem to mind, but one that sends her mother into hysterics.
So naturally, Daphne does what any mother would do: She crafts an Internet ad for Milly and secretly arranges the girl's dates. (This leads to yet another staple of the genre, the bad-first-date montage.)
Of all the men she meets in a chic hotel lobby bar, two would-be suitors emerge who are so vastly opposite, it's obvious whom we're meant to root for from the start.
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