Jamie
I don’t know how we do it. I don’t know how we watch I Don’t Know How She Does It and follow it up with G-Force. I don’t know how we keep falling so far behind that I have to write about I Don’t Know How She Does It and G-Force in the same day. I don’t know how we have so many good films we could watch or books we could read and lives we could live and yet we watch I Don’t Know How She Does It and G-Force… like back-to-back. I don’t know how I watched both these movies recently and seem to not be able to remember when and where I did it… like… I watched I Don’t Know How She Does it before watching G-Force? I don’t remember that. Is it possible I watched them both at the same time while holding an iPad in one hand and my phone in the other with the Red Sox game playing on mute in the background? Is that possible? I feel like that’s how I did it.
To recap, Kate is a working mom who seems to have everything under control. Don’t mind that her husband quit his job to start his own company or that she has to travel for her finance job a bunch or that she never has time to make things for her kids bake sale or… that she just had a huge project accepted at work that’ll take her to NYC all the time to work with Pierce Brosnan?! Whaaa?! It’s the opportunity of a lifetime and you know what… she can do it… right? Turns out she can, but not without a bunch of people judging her and everything going awry for three months. Things start to heat up a little when Pierce Brosnan takes her out for bowling in Cleveland. Now you are probably like “Ha! It’s funny because they are bowling in Cleveland.” Well to that I say, “What’s so funny?” Sounds like a wonderful evening. I’m totally unsurprised that this ended up making Kate worry about her relationship with Pierce Brosnan and how it might look. Bowling is damn sexy and he was sexy doing it. If someone saw her there they probably (actually, definitely) would assume they were having an affair. Bowling! Cleveland! May as well have booked a hotel at the Ritz… What was I talking about? Oh right, anyway she’s great so she succeeds and Pierce Brosnan is like “Sex, maybe?” and she’s like no… maybe have sex with my single friend instead. He agrees. She then uses her leverage from the big success to strike a new work-life balance with her boss. THE END.
Not much happens in this movie. It really just seems like a family with some young kids who find themselves in a particularly stressful moment in both their professional lives. It lasts for about three months during which the husband gets his company off the ground and the wife gets a big deal done… then things are OK because they got those things done. That’s cool. It’s a perfectly fine plot for a book… maybe not visually all that interesting. They also seemed to realize this as the film is made as if it’s part documentary with interviews with the characters stuck in there. This is not just bizarre but bad enough that someone needed to step in and stop it from happening. I don’t blame them for wanting to do something to spice it up, but it doesn’t work at all. Honestly they just needed to raise the stakes a bit or something (anything). Weird movie. Greg Kinnear and SJP are actually fine though. Oh, and there’s a scene where SJP and Brosnan go bowling in Cleveland and it’s the most unbelievable “league night” bowling scene in cinematic history.
Hot Take Clam Bake! Pierce Brosnan should have ended up with Momo. He’s a workaholic. She’s a workaholic. They’ve also already met… unlike SJP’s friend that she ends up setting him up with. He ends up sipping mai tai’s on a beach somewhere with that friend rather than making teamwork dreamwork with Momo as a power couple? I don’t think so. He’s a maniac! A maniac that thought SJP was going to leave her family for a work relationship. Guess who’s also a maniac? Momo. Mistake. Hot Take Temperature: Bowling in Cleveland.
Patrick?
Patrick
‘Ello everyone! Are we talking about a romantic comedy no one knows about about business business lady doing business things? Let’s go!
The biggest crime of the film is the weird interview style jokes they throw into the film every so often. Really terrible idea, never works, and keeps on going for most of (if not all of) the film for no reason.
The second biggest crime is the plot which is boring and dumb. Let’s make bankers look nice in the wake of the financial collapse. No thanks.
And the third biggest crime is that the entire movie is a bit gross in how it treats the idea of working in general.
No comment on the treatment of motherhood … although, also seems gross. Yo, Greg Kinnear. Pick up the slack bro.
Let’s see if I can even remember the storylines we are dealing with. SJP wants to make a sweet financial fund that will really help people. Kinnear has an architecture start-up and just got the Big Deal. Momo loves work but is going to have a baby (awwww). Brosnan is a hottie with a body and doesn’t need no woman (except SJP?). Kelsey Grammer is a monster who wants his employees to die at their desk (in not so many words). The end.
There is a moment in the film where Brosnan is basically like “adultery?” and she’s like “naw I have a fambly.” Jamie didn’t think this was weird. I thought it was weird. I’ll leave it to the audience.
But yeah, boring film. Not funny. Not interesting. Didn’t like it.
Definitely great Setting as a Character (Where?) for Boston. And a Secret Holiday Film (When?) for T-Givs which is RUINED by work. And a Worst Twist (How?) for the obvious twist that Brosnan is now dating Sarah Jessica Parker’s friend at the end. This film is Bad.
Read about my sequel in the Quiz. Cheerios,
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