2 hrs for a 45 min story!

cekadah

score 1/10

And that's no lie! Two hours for a thin veil of a flick. Two hours and when it is all over all you have is a sore butt!

The first one and one half hours could have been cut to just thirty minutes. Here's what happens - Jules, a young beautiful girl (Anne Hathaway) with a stay-at-home husband and a preschool child, has created a more than successful internet clothes shopping website. This is the opening of the story! While she's out of town and through a slight miscommunication a 'hire the seniors' program is advertised. In walks Ben (De Niro) a 70 year old retired widower, and guess what happens, he is hired as the bosses (Hathaway) intern assistant. She doesn't like him, then she tolerates him, then she likes him. What a thoughtful, charming, helpful old man he is. Then at the one hour and thirty minute point into the story something happens!

The final thirty minutes are taken up with her tears, Ben being the understanding grandfatherly advice type, and Jules husband making an ass of himself. All is resolved, happy ending, and 'you' the viewer will say "Thank Gawd it's over"!

My final word. In the character development of Jules it's pointed out in a big business article that she does something on a bicycle in the office. How many times do you see her do this? I counted once, then never again does she do it. So why was it put into the story?

cekadah 10 January 2016

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3392502/