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...lipstick on a face that hasn't seen much time in the California sun, and with a grieving matched in severity only by her will to learn the truth, Jolie is supposed to be a regular working mom who rises to meet the challenge of dreadful events. The actress is capable of many things, but being ordinary isn't one of them. Jolie seems to know that her startling, cartoonish, monumental beauty is a handicap here, so she goes bigger in her movements. A stream of tears stains her Kabuki makeup; her sighs come with shrugs worthy of Atlas. Underplaying...
...accommodating. During the first half hour it’s difficult to tell if the actors are actually trying to look vacant or if they’ve simply forgotten that the camera is rolling. In an opening scene where Ian accidentally hints at his love for Felicia, actress Amanda Crew delivers a momentary blank stare, as if forgetting to react. The one bright spot is James Marsden’s performance as Ian’s jerk older brother Rex. He delivers lines attacking Ian in a way both brutal and hilarious. Take, for instance, his insight into Ian?...
...more than 100 pounds, and is so slim that her waist is swimming in Zara's smallest size XS skirt. She doesn't need to lose any weight. But Japanese girls obsessed with diets tend to jump at any trendy new ones, so, when Akai heard about a popular actress who'd lost 26 pounds through the Morning Banana Diet, she had to try it. And the dearth of bananas as her local supermarket, and many others, is testimony to the popularity of the new dieting...
...August (Queen Latifah), who runs the bee farm, is the matriarch of the clan, beaming wisdom and common sense to a child voracious for any human touch. May (Brit actress Sophie Okonedo) has long been in mourning for her dead twin sister April. Her emotions are deep and constantly near the surface; she is given to weeping and keening when she sees the pain of others. June (Alicia Keys), a teacher, is the no-nonsense one. With her high forehead, Afro coiffure and commanding hauteur, she is a preview of militant black women like Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis...
...several barb-filled minutes that their relationship will end happily. Most of the movie manages to be at once cringe-inducing and entirely unfunny. It’s clear the actors are attempting to satirize Hollywood, but since most of the jokes are about transsexuals or the vapidity of actress Sophie Maes, played by “Transformers” hottie Megan Fox, this goal remains safely out of reach. Sophie slurs her speech, extols the virtues of vegetarianism, and owns a pet chihuahua, as if the creators of the film woke up and decided that mocking Paris Hilton...