I came into the movie thinking that it would/could be fun, with witty banter and smart dialogue that had great fluidity to it as most of Brooks' work does. This does not. I normally love all of these actors...and together it would seem to be a great match. Other reviews have said that this is a smart, deep and witty character study. Wrong. These are terrible, hard to relate to characters who aren't likeable at all. I really tried with this one too, pushing through each painfully drawn out scene, waiting for some plot development, some sort of character realization or change...and the movie just kept going and going and going, like this sentence. I guess I set my expectations way too high on this one.