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Just perfect...

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I was disappointed bc I'm a fan of Jason Bateman and he usually has pretty good films. It was to mildly entertaining and just all over the place.

Conrad Valmont (Jason Bateman) is a rich man almost 40 "easing into adulthood." He wants a relationship but has trouble with them. Then out of the blue, his parents while away, opt to get divorced and he is cut off because...he is. He rooms with a friend (Billy Crudup) and steals his prospective girlfriend Beatrice (Olivia Wilde). He tells neither of them of his financial situation, letting them think he is still rich. He has no trouble lying, stealing, borrowing, and being a general A-hole.The movie has a monologue to fill in plot points and some theme ideas. It has some minor comedy such as when Beatrice claims she is a vegetarian not because she loves animals, but hates vegetables. The dialogue appears to be the film's strong point, although it was overly pretentious, as was the film. The film is critical of people being pretentious and those who say they are pretentious, perhaps done as a way to be critical of the great Romantic novelists or those who inherit their wealth or all those critics who are going to say this was a pretentious film.There are scenes that are similar to what you might see in a Woody Allen film, but are second rate.The film was boring. I couldn't relate to any of the shallow characters. Valmont was the only real developed character and he was stiff. Worse than "Arthur 2".No F-bombs or nudity. Implied sex.

Conrad Valmont (Jason Bateman) is 40, privileged, emotionally stunted, and living off the family's wealth in the family's high class NYC hotel. He is supposed to be writing a book but lives without achievements. His parents separate and cut him off from the family fortune. With no means, he takes the subway to his friend Dylan (Billy Crudup) for a place to crash. Along the way, he meets and falls for struggling model Beatrice (Olivia Wilde). Despite Dylan claiming Beatrice, Conrad pursues her in a week-long affair.With the pretentious narration and the particular characters, this is a story of relatively unappealing people. Conrad has nothing to offer and Dylan is little better. Even Beatrice is superficially drawn. There is no depths to these characters. Conrad's eventual growth is tenuous at best. The biggest problem is that the characters provide no humor in this suppose comedy. It's intentionally flat with no heart.

I was looking out some user comments for this film, and saw the name "Wes Anderson" mentioned. I guess I can see that..?? But two words that kept popping into my head as I watched this little romantic comedy the other day- "Woody Allen".Jason Bateman stars as a disinherited man nearing 40 without much direction in his life due to being under the care and protection of his richer-than-God parents. Upon finding out he is about to be cut off after their divorce, he seeks shelter at his best friend's (Billy Crudup) place, and starts a torrid romance with his friend's wife (Olivia Wilde). It seems that in most of his roles, Bateman seems to be playing the down-to-earth character, sorta reacting to the other nut jobs in whatever particular film or show he's in (perfect case in point: "Arrested Development"). But in THIS film, he is the nut job in question...LOL And he does a great job in the role. And did I mention how much this movie reminded me of a Woody Allen film??? OMG so much so- and I'm looking at the actor who plays Bateman's shrink in this- and I "think" that's the same dude who used to be Allen's right-hand man actor in a lot of his earlier work in the '70s and '80s-??? Definite recommend on this one- for Allen fans, Bateman fans, and I would say, yes, Wes Anderson fans will get something out of this too...