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Review:
 Kevin
Smith has decided to do the world a favor and consign Jay and
Silent Bob to the dustbin of history. They are nowhere to be seen
in this trifle of a film with no real message worth making.
We open in a catholic school somewhere in Soprano-land, where a
little girl named Gertie Trinke(Raquel Castro) is called on to
read a report on her family. We then go into flashback where PR
whiz Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) falls in love with co-worker
Gertrude Steiney(Jennifer Lopez) and they do the obvious things
prior to the expected death in childbirth. The final appearance of
Bennifer in the movies is mostly painless. Ollie moves in with his
father (George Carlin) and our hero’s career is destroyed when
Will Smith is late for an appearance…
Cut to seven years later. Gertie is now seven years old and has
finished reading her report. Ollie has been out of the PR business
for just about that long and is working on the street cleaning
crew with his dad. But he still has hopes for his comeback.
This is too cutsie. Sure there’s a romance of sorts between
Ollie and a video store clerk named Maya(Liv Tyler), and the gag
about "Sweeny Todd" and "Cats" is funny, but this is a pretty
trifle of nothing. The joys of parenthood are wonderful, but the
ending is predictable and extremely lame. It would be nice to see
something different for a change. I loved "Chasing Amy." That was
different. This is just the same old thing done a million times
before. Why bother doing it again? Just because the fellow made
"Dogma" and needs support?
On the other hand, the acting is wonderful. The kid is great
and one almost forgive Affleck for "Gigli" and "Daredevil," but it
really isn’t worth the full price of a ticket. Wait for the thing
to come out on cable.
Eric Lurio
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