It's amazing that two such talented actors as Shelley Long and Tom Hanks can produce something that--at its best moments--rises to mediocrity, but spends most of its time lurking in sheer awfulness.
If you liked Diane Chambers (on Cheers), you will not like this heroine. She is neither intelligent, nor caring, nor committed, in short there is nothing likable about her. We never have a sense of why she hooked up with Tom in the first place, or why she sticks it out through the long ordeal of the re-construction.
There are a number of minor sub-plots, none of which amount to anything and leave you scratching your head at the end, thinking "why was that there?" The transvestites, for instance, what did that contribute? Or Tom's father? Why was he even in this story? On the positive side, there are a few pratfalls and slapstick scenes that will make you chuckle here and there. But it's lost amid the morass of bad writing and predictability.
If you liked Diane Chambers (on Cheers), you will not like this heroine. She is neither intelligent, nor caring, nor committed, in short there is nothing likable about her. We never have a sense of why she hooked up with Tom in the first place, or why she sticks it out through the long ordeal of the re-construction.
There are a number of minor sub-plots, none of which amount to anything and leave you scratching your head at the end, thinking "why was that there?" The transvestites, for instance, what did that contribute? Or Tom's father? Why was he even in this story? On the positive side, there are a few pratfalls and slapstick scenes that will make you chuckle here and there. But it's lost amid the morass of bad writing and predictability.