Touches You

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

You've got the typical plot line of "I don't want a relationship...oh wait no, I like you". Except the lead role is a woman who has a face that is stuck on a clown smile and she awkwardly loves everything. Every character is a stereotype that was poorly portrayed. You have the douchebag friend who only wants to bang every woman mentioned and the two gay guys who are the back up friends. The whole movie is a big pile of cliché'. It's a little painful to watch. I wouldn't waste any money on it.

NYC flower shop owner Genevieve Gernier (Nia Vardalos) loves Valentine's Day. She doesn't date anybody for more than five dates to avoid going stale. Greg Gatlin (John Corbett) quit his law firm and bought the nearby cursed restaurant. Greg buys flowers for his girlfriend and then discovers that she's not exclusive. He's intrigued with Genevieve's dating system and they start going out.This is written and made like a weak sitcom. Nia Vardalos faces an unPC problem of age and looks. She seems to have broken down a barrier with her big hit "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". However in MBFGW, she was a 30something homely spinster. She fits a lot better with that role and the family characters are vastly superior. It's seven years later. She's playing a flighty single with a flighty rule about dating. Her character has no heft and no substance. She should have let Zoe Kazan take the lead in this one. This is a clueless single gal sitcom and fortysomething Nia is too old to play that role. She can't be stuck on her daddy issues at that age without making it more interesting. I want better material for this lovable bunch.

I voted this movie a 5 only because I generally like John Corbett, but I wouldn't recommend it even for a "bad movies" night. It is disgustingly sweet (and I'm a romantic), full of clichés and stereotypes and so predictable that they should've put a spoiler alert before the first scenes. From the other flicks I've seen with her, it was obvious Nia Vardalos is a BAD actress (and apparently a bad director as well) and she definitely topped the cake with this one. She lacks any kind of expression, except the fake, creepy smile that comes with every line she delivers and the acting in general in way overdone. One of the very few funny moments was the name of Greg's bar, but she didn't take advantage of that either. The only good things in this movie are the pretty flowers and the nice ending song. Make yourself a favor and watch RoboCop instead.

Okay I usually don't review because most of the movies that I watch don't need them may be because 100s of people review them already.But this movie has compelled me to write. First of all this movie is awful,not because I don't like love stories or because of the story of this movie but because of the star cast and the acting. Heroine was trying to hard but it really didn't work and hero OMG he was so dumb through out that I couldn't stand it. The thing that I liked about this movie is that its story is good,it never makes you sad and they have made it very color full makes watchable just for once otherwise I won't recommend this movie to anybody and trust me my choice is not that bad. Still if you don't have anything else to watch with your girlfriend well you could give it a try.