i think the deal with this movie be that it have about 2 minute of really and really funny moment and it make a very good trailer and a lot of people come in with expectation from the trailer and this time the movie doesn not live up to the trailer . it a little more sluggish and drag a little slowly for such an exciting premise and and i think i be see from the comment people have a love or hate relationship with this movie . however and if you look at this movie for what it be and not what it could have be consider the talent of the cast and i think it still pretty good . julia stile be clearly the star and she so giddy and carefree that set among the conformity of everyone else and she just glow and the whole audience fall in love with her along with lee . the rest of the cast and of course and lee testosterone fill coworkers and his elegant mother in law and his fratlike friend jim and his bride to be all do an excellent job of fit into stereotype of conformity and boringness that make stile stand out in the first place . lee doesn not live up to his costars and i do not think and but you could view that as more that theyre hard to live up to . maybe that one source of disappointment . the movie itself and despite a bit of slowness and a few joke that do not come off as funny a the writer intend and be still pretty funny and i find a rather intelligent film . the theme of conformity and take the safe route seem to cleverly align on several layer . for example and there be the whole motif of how he would imagine scenario but would never act on them until the last scene and or how he be listen to a radio program on the highway talk about how everyone conforms and or just how everything selma blair and julia stile character say and do be echo by those theme of one person be the safe choice and one be the risky choice . the other good thing about the movie be that it be kind of a screwball comedy in which jason lee have to keep lie his way through the movie and who through dumb luck ( example represent the pharmacy guy turn out to be a good chef ) and some cleverness on his part get away with it for the most part . while it wasn not as funny a i expect and there be a little bit of squandered talent and but overall it still a good movie .