CORPORATE LINE: It takes some people years to fall in love at first sight… A LOT LIKE LOVE is a romantic comedy about destiny, connection and the frequently fuzzy line between chance friendships and happily ever after. A LOT LIKE LOVE traces the relationship of Oliver (ASHTON KUTCHER) and Emily (AMANDA PEET) who meet on a flight from Los Angeles to New York seven years ago – each of them declaring that they couldn’t be more wrong for each other.
Life keeps bringing them back together over the next seven years, but the timing never seems right. As they struggle with their different partners, careers and breakups, they turn from casual acquaintances into trusted friends who can say anything to one another.
As they each search for love and a relationship that’s not fated for disaster, it takes seven years for Oliver and Emily to figure out that maybe what they really have is something…a lot like love.
THE GOOD: Ashton Kutcher had to relax and take A Lot Like Love in a whole new way. He is actually subdued and that is a good thing. If I had to sit through another Kutcher movie where he plays the over-the-top caffeinated self I’d give up my day job. Even Amanda Peet’s portrayal of Emily the b***h is dead on. It’s funny how actors playing their roles spot on can still end up in a movie this bad.
THE BAD: The time that goes by, seven years, is ironic considering the film seems like it lasts that long. Destiny is one thing but does anyone know another person who has had any experienced life like the one portrayed in A Lot Like Love? The relationship starts and stops over and over again and we are supposed to sit and wait until the obvious ending where they come together? We fall off long before that.
FRANKLY: Opening the film by joining the mile high club isn’t necessarily a bad thing—the problem is A Lot Like Love goes downhill from there. It makes no sense how the two main characters can have zero chemistry, zero in common, and how a nice guy like Oliver could be interested in a woman who is as abrasive as Emily. A Lot Like Love plays on so many different movies that it’s never original and never really good.
+ Charlie Craine
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