Filmfemme

Rating: ***

Review: Topher Grace, if I ever lose fifty pounds--maybe seventy--we are definitely getting married. I imagine you're about 90 to 130 pounds of cuteness and I don't want to crush you. I'm twenty-one, and sometimes I get mistaken for a high schooler; if you weren't famous, you would have the same problem. You're a talented boy-man, and together I think we'd have really youthful looking children. Enough about our future! Let's talk about In Good Company, a little movie about what happens when your business gets taken over, you're replaced by someone half your age, and your new boss falls for your daughter. First of all, this title should have been tossed out somewhere along the way. No one that I mentioned it to knew what I was talking about until I explained who was in it. They were familiar with the film but could not readily identify it with its title: a bad sign. Secondly, at just under two hours, this movie is too long. This is a small dose kind of film: a ninety minute story for sure. Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace are extremely likable guys. Scarlett Johansson, who certainly has her share of fans, just doesn't have the same air of easy friendliness in my opinion. The best way I can put it is this: It seems like Dennis or Topher would laugh at your jokes more than Scarlett would. They'd say hello in the hallway, and she might not. Anyway, I wasn't fond of her in this film. I think her personality worked fabulously in Lost in Translation, and she was lovely in that but I was bored by her in this. The movie had some good laughs (thanks to Topher, my future lovah), and I was even a little touched by the ten minutes proceeding the last two minutes, but overall I think I could have waited for DVD.