Ok so maybe I wouldn't have cast Will Ferrel as Darren but still it wasn't as bad as that. I think the movie was just as fantastic (fantasy-land i mean, not awesome) as the tv show. I thought all the actors did a pretty good job since it was a comedy. I thought it was pretty funny; maybe not laugh out loud funny, but amusing, diverting funny which can be just as good. I was at first a little distracted by Nicole Kidman in a comedy role but strangely, it worked. Same goes for Michael Caine. I liked it. And by the end, I thought the whole Will Ferrel thing worked ok too. The entire movie smacks of being a musical even though it isn't but its so ridiculous (in a good way) that I think it would have been better as a musical. As for the chemistry, yeah there was no sexual tension, but it was a much sweeter thing than that: Isabel is in love, experiencing new things and emotions for the first time, and i think them as a couple sort of worked out quite well.