ITLOW

On Sunday, Karl and I ventured into the land of women: a cinema packed with chick-flick fans. “In the Land of Women” (or ITLOW as the ad campaigns keep calling it) is the latest chick-flick to leave me feeling shallow and dissatisfied.

Years ago I would have said that this was my favourite genre of film, so I’m in the routine of going to see every new one that comes out, yet I never seem to be able to muster much enthusiasm about them afterwards!

It’s supposedly a romance/comedy/drama about trying to makes sense of love. It touches on lots of topics but never really nails any of them. Adam Brody (the geeky guy from the O.C.) plays a frustrated young writer who is dumped by his girlfriend and runs away to take care of his ageing gran (Olympia Dukakis). As he settles into suburbia he meets the lovely ladies of the neighbourhood, hears all their confessions and musings on love and theoretically learns something from it all.

There are some great comic moments, so maybe I should give the director the benefit of the doubt and say, they didn’t answer any questions on love because they want to give me the chance to work it out on my own.

kristy.gerrod.com rating: 5 out of 10. Painless fun, but can easily wait for DVD.