Tom Hanks has directed a bland, lifeless, sexless and entirely fatuous autumn-years romcom - co-writing it with Nia Vardalos, whose box-office smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding he and the wife Rita Wilson shrewdly brought to the screen as producers in 2002. Hanks himself plays a straight-ahead nice guy who's downsized from his job inside a big store; he takes a grownup education course in the college and finds himself falling for jaded lecturer Mercedes Tainot, a stunningly bad performance from Jennifer aniston, which she phones all the while apparently exercising her fee on the special Star Remuneration app. Before they are available anywhere near getting together, the script offers an extended and massively boring subplot by which Larry seems to flirt having a free-spirited babe of the fellow student called Talia, played by 28-year-old British-born Gugu Mbatha-Raw. This really is naturally to reassure us such a super-hot alpha-male our middle-aged hero is still. But Roberts and Hanks have zero chemistry. An appreciation story starring Edward Heath and Julie Andrews might have had more chemistry than this, and the realities of affection and sex are utterly absent. We all know Mercedes's husband isn't good because he loafs around in your own home, taking a look at internet porn, did I only say porn? This works out to be bikini models. Roberts's own awfulness involves a head when she pre-emptively harangues her class about caring and challengingly tells these phones "Get out! " Now, this may be a homage to the episode of Ricky Gervais's Work, by which David Brent, giving his talk on aspirational management, tells his students to "Get out! " Or maybe Hanks and Vardalos are simply ripping them back. For Tom Hanks fans, and everybody else, this really is one to overlook.
Tom Hanks has directed a bland, lifeless, sexless and entirely fatuous autumn-years romcom - co-writing it with Nia Vardalos, whose box-office smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding he and the wife Rita Wilson shrewdly brought to the screen as producers in 2002. Hanks himself plays a straight-ahead nice guy who's downsized from his job inside a big store; he takes a grownup education course in the college and finds himself falling for jaded lecturer Mercedes Tainot, a stunningly bad performance from Jennifer aniston, which she phones all the while apparently exercising her fee on the special Star Remuneration app. Before they are available anywhere near getting together, the script offers an extended and massively boring subplot by which Larry seems to flirt having a free-spirited babe of the fellow student called Talia, played by 28-year-old British-born Gugu Mbatha-Raw. This really is naturally to reassure us such a super-hot alpha-male our middle-aged hero is still. But Roberts and Hanks have zero chemistry. An appreciation story starring Edward Heath and Julie Andrews might have had more chemistry than this, and the realities of affection and sex are utterly absent. We all know Mercedes's husband isn't good because he loafs around in your own home, taking a look at internet porn, did I only say porn? This works out to be bikini models. Roberts's own awfulness involves a head when she pre-emptively harangues her class about caring and challengingly tells these phones "Get out! " Now, this may be a homage to the episode of Ricky Gervais's Work, by which David Brent, giving his talk on aspirational management, tells his students to "Get out! " Or maybe Hanks and Vardalos are simply ripping them back. For Tom Hanks fans, and everybody else, this really is one to overlook.
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