Posts Tagged ‘movie review’

• The Other Sister

  Date: 2010.04.10 | Category: Interesting | Response: 0

  Carla: “I wonder who thought up sex?”

  Daniel: “I think it was Madonna”

  And with that almost all-time classic line that really had me cracking up big time, my opinion on this film was well and truly changed. Let’s face it, the name of director Garry Marshall conjures up the inevitable impression of Pretty Woman and the fact that just about every romantic comedy since that film has to some extent been trying to emulate its easy charm, and generally failing quite miserably. So, when the cover plays up both the romantic comedy aspect and the Garry Marshall name on the film, I start to get just a little wary of what is to come. Indeed, this one was approached in the vein of “another dreary film”. Just goes to show that sometimes we should not pre-judge things quite so much. Despite some rather obvious cringe moments, this actually turned out to be an utterly charming film that certainly filled in a couple of hours in a very pleasant way. Even the moralizing that is so obvious throughout the film was almost bearable. Read the rest of this entry »