Don't Believe the Hype

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A teenage girl (Katherine Heigl) on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father (Gerard Depardieu) tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.There are a number of strange things about this film. Fans of director Steve Miner might be interested, and Katherine Heigl fans may want to see her first big role. And then there is Depardieu, who was huge forever but might not have been as big in America. I first saw this film, as many people did, when it first came out, but it actually is more enjoyable now (2016) because of where those involved ended up.But really, is it not strange to make a family film about an accused child molester? We probably should not be laughing at a man who is repulsing his friends because they think he is sleeping with a child (who also happens to be his daughter).

This movie is a funny comedy about a father and daughter vacationing at some tropical island,where the daughter falls for some boy and trying to pass for what she thinks is "cool",she makes up a preposterous story about her father. I read some of the negative comments,i think those people didn't get the main point of this movie,that exactly because the lie is so preposterous,all the situations are so funny. Besides the funny situations ,the movie has a few nice points to make,that young people often lie to appear "cool" but the only cool thing of course is to be who you are.Then,also it makes a nice point even though its exaggerated of course,what hardships good parents have to go through for their children's happiness.Also,that parents ,sometimes can also learn from their kids about their own life. Depardieu is great in this,and Heigl is also good.i don't agree that there is a huge difference between this version and the French one. In the French one,Depardieu has naturally some more facility with the language but he does a good job in English,also the American version has better production values than the french one and has some extra jokes about what Americans think about the French stereotype,which are funny and don't exist in the French version.

This is one of my favourite movies EVER... I have seen it about a million times and would never turn down the opportunity to watch it again. In fact, I love it so much that I REALLY wanted to check out the resort where it was filmed on my upcoming vacation... does anyone know the name of it? If so, please email me!!! I watched this movie for the first time when it was first released and I was about Nikki's age and for the longest time I bugged my dad to take me to away somewhere because of course I expected the same thing to happen to me! It's just such an amazing setting and such a cute puppy-love story. This is a definite DVD collector's must!

Having not seen her father for ages, fourteen year old Nicole has become a young woman when her father Andre comes to New York to take her away on a beach holiday. Nicole is embarrassed by her father and is struggling with being a woman and a girl at the same time. Keen not to appear childish in front of hunky Ben, Nicole tells him she is 16 and pretends her "father" is actually her lover. The plan convinces Ben of her age but when the story gets around that the much older Andre is having sex with a 16 year old, it causes problems at the resort.Although it took me quite a long time to get over the idea of a comedy revolving around the early sexual blooming of a 14 year old wearing a thong bathing suit, I eventually did and once I had all that was left was a rather bland comedy that had quite few laughs or moments of interest. The plot is in two basic threads. In one the annoying and totally undesirable Nicole tries to get Ben to fall for her. In the other Andre suffers because of unknowingly being taken for his own daughter's sugar daddy. Neither thread works at all well and the result is a mostly bland concoction that didn't interest me at all. The direction is suitable nondescript and does nothing with it.The cast can't lift the material and mostly are just so-so. Without any charm in the script, Depardieu just seems clunky. He has very little charisma with Heigl although that isn't all her fault. She only has two modes – one is forcing her looks, the other is being petulant and spoilt. It does nothing to help make the material interesting or charming and she isn't any good. Support is average from James and others as the story is not good enough to give them anything to work with and there is nothing else for them to do.Overall this is a bland comedy that may appeal to teenage girls with the giggles but it did nothing for me. The material lacks charm and the cast just plod their way through it. Even ignoring the uncomfortable idea of the 14 year old girl pretending to be sexually active with a man in his late 40's this still is a strange and unfunny film.