What's Not to Love?

摘要

The movie calendar is weird. the summer blockbuster season begins the first week in May (this year: Wolverine), reaches its twin peaks the weeks of Memorial Day and July 4, then gradually subsides. We're still in midsummer, yet there's only one ginormous action adventure (G.I. foe: The Rise of Cobra) awaiting release, and not a cartoon hero or a dinosaur-or a cartoon dinosaur-in sight. Suddenly it's the time of real people learning how to cope with recognizable problems. The Hollywood kind of problems-the ones that can be solved in under two hours.rnMind you, there's nothing intellectually strenuous in the late-summer offerings. These are quirky romantic comedies in which dissonant figures struggle to achieve harmonic convergence.