Just Spectacular

so -- this post may make you distrust my ability to critique film. if true, i have three words for you. bite it, bitches. this isn't a critique but an appreciation.

i recently saw 'Just Friends', the movie starring ryan reynolds and amy smart. it depicts a friendship between a guy and girl -- the guy, predictably, wanting a romantic relationship and the girl, equally predictably, seeing him only as a friend.

loved it. laughed my ass off.

for the record, i think ryan reynolds had generally been a crap actor. nothing he's done has been worth much. i don't have that much higher opinion of amy smart, either. i think generally they are the kinds of actors who make a lot of money making dumb teeny films that draw dumb teenies.

JF is different, however, and i find myself harboring high expectations of reynolds now. he did a terrific job in this movie -- it's definitely a movie and not a film; i'm not that bad a critic -- both as a physical comedian and as a more conventional comic actor in which delivery is everything. his mannerisms were fresh, much more so than in any other film he's done. perhaps being married to a fairly original and very smart fellow canadian has helped his craft.

"this is a good movie." don't question it.