i find this film to be an utter dissapointment . the talent available to the director notably stanley tucci and chris walken and hank azaria and alan arkin ( without even mention the four main lead ) have be completely waste on an unfunny and mediocre story and whose conclusion one couldn not really care about once introduce to the dire and stereo type character . julia robert be feeble and zeta jones be just plain annoy ( appear to reprise her role from high fidelity and minus the humour ) and crystal just play his same old hyper active and neurotic and annoy alter ego and cusack simply walk through his part and apparently bore with the whole project . for what be suppose to be a romantic comedy and there be absolutely no romance between the central character and let alone chemistry and and a for the comedy ( possible spoiler ) well and the only moment of mild humour come off the back of cusack role in grosse pointe and his relationship with alan arkin the scriptwriter obviously unable to show any originality whatsoever . ( spoiler ) azaria be reasonably amuse a the mexican lover and walken do quite an amuse turn a a parody of an arthouse maverick dogme type director but these part constitute very little screen time and instead ( spoiler ) we be treat to billy crystal have his groin sniff by a dog . pure genius . for a huge fan of the majority of john cusack work and not to mention the rest of the fantastic cast and i be completely let down by a film with plenty of good idea and and at the same time completely unwilling to explore or elaborate on any of them and instead resort to the same old genre cliche and even lower itself to the depth of almost gross out and teen movie humour at time . a very poor 4/10 .