I Love You Too

Daina Reid

This is yet another dismal attempt at what passes for romantic comedy nowadays. The film is much like other Hollywood offerings such as Failure To Launch (2006) and it might as well be subtitled Immature Men And The Gorgeous Women Who Inexplicably Love Them.

Yvonne Strahovski of the spy-comedy series, Chuck, is the luckless lass Alice here. While the Englishwoman stays on in Melbourne for her boyfriend Jim (Australian actor Brendan Cowell, both below), he cannot even bring himself to say “I love you” after three years.

To fill up the overlong running time, the couple is surrounded by an assortment of lesser and not very interesting characters, ranging from odious best friend to comforting co-worker.

Mostly, the film is a tedious bore and the only development of any note is a subplot with Peter Dinklage (from 2003’s The Station Agent) playing a character infatuated with a beautiful model way out of his league.

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