You won't be disappointed!

Simply A Masterpiece

Sadly Over-hyped

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

First, this movie is way too short and ends too abruptly. Shouldn't all movies follow the "hour and a half" rule of thumb? Not this movie.Second, the actors hardly seemed engaged. As a matter of fact, Robin Thick, certainly not an actor, upstaged all these "Golden Globe Nominated" professional actors.Third, there are a few things I still don't understand. What was the purpose of including the friend, mother, and repair man? Why did Abby have to be a chef? Where was the real conflict? Although it was fun to watch, why did Jaime Pressly get naked?Honestly, I would rather cut off my fingers like Abby than watch this movie again.

I decided to watch this movie with my boyfriend, since Vulture described the Robin Thicke's scenes as atrocious. It was.If you start watching this movie, you'll probably fall asleep before the end of the first half, but invite your friends and just laugh at how bad this movie is. You'll bond over the horrible dialogs. After all, "The Internet never lies!" says our friend Robin.I really adored the acting of the washing machine, I think she should have been on the poster. She was such an important part of the plot, and so likable - in comparison with the other characters. I will say that at the end of the movie, I wasn't sure how to answer to Abby's dilemma: should you pay the repairer 120$ ? if you have any idea of the average price of machine repair in the USA I'd be glad to know.Don't forget to listen carefully to what Thicke's says about PAYAYA (paella, right ?). I'll probably make a ring-tone out of his "Beans, rabbit, snails". Please Internet: do make plenty of Robin Thicke gifs ! I want to have a gif of his starring... or his answer when he's in the laundromat "...*laughs softly*... laundry".Behold the true master piece that is "Making the rules" ! (btw: why is it named "making the rules" ?)No seriously. Don't watch that. Or at least invite friends and drink some wine (with some payaya on the side).

I don't normally write reviews but this movie deserved others to be warned - I wish I had been. This may possibly be the worst movie I have ever seen. I found myself praying I didn't have to watch her go through 9 months of pregnancy while her husband drilled their deck and she watered her flowers. I actually felt the acting was as bad as adult-entertainment movies, like the plot was that horrible, and the acting was atrocious. The only thing I was left wondering at the end of the movie was how this movie got by without Robin Thicke getting a massive "wtf man!! That just wasted an hour of my life!!" from someone like Kevin Hart? Consider yourself warned.

Making the Rules is a film about a chef, Abby (Jaime Pressly), who is seriously injured on the job. And, until her hand had healed, she's unable to go back to work. Instead of working, she stays home and forces herself to relax—which is not easy due to her rather intense personality. Soon, she gets bored and decides to start seeing an old boyfriend—which is a problem since she is already married! It gets worse when she sleeps with this boyfriend and soon finds herself pregnant—and she isn't sure whose child it is. Her motivation to do this is very vague, as her husband seems like a pretty nice guy and he puts up with Abby's snippiness. Her frequent ambivalence towards both of them just baffled me—as she soon tired of the boyfriend. She is a woman who has no idea what she wants in life nor does she have any sort of moral compass. She simply acts on her feelings.I had a SERIOUS problem with the plot of this movie as I watched it. I didn't care for the main character at all and this is an insurmountable hurdle for most films. With some types of movies (such as a western or war film or film about Hitler) you are expected to hate some of the characters, but with a modern slice of life film like this one, this is very tough—and almost impossible when the person is the leading character. To me, Abby came off as occasionally nasty, very self- absorbed, rather tense and unlikable. Add to that a nice dose of adultery, and you have a film that is very hard to like. So, while Abby's very, very pretty outside, she's very ugly within and not a person you can admire or relate to—at least for the average person. This just makes me wonder why they wrote this sort of a film in the first place. Did this seem normal in the least to anyone making the film? The film is a lot like a rom-com with neither the romance nor the comedy nor the likable lady. It didn't help that the film also was rather slow and low energy.So is there anything I liked about the film? Not a whole lot. The acting was generally good but the pacing and story just left me very cold. And, there are simply a lot of wonderful cooking movies out there that I would recommend instead, such as Mostly Martha or The Big Night. Each of these films featured characters who were flawed but ultimately quite likable.