by dane youssefnow here be a movie that want to be something successful by combine everything successful . kiss a fool want to be too many thing . can you mix successful ingredient and get the best of every world . kiss . try to be a 40 style romantic comedy and a modern sex comedy and a sit com at the same time . co writer or director doug ellin be a friend of schwimmer and schwimmer have go on and on about exactly how great it feel to shed his ross image and play the complete anti ross . jason lee star a jay murphy and a sensitive nice guy who a romance novelist and be recover from his late breakup with a model name natasha ( play by tv weird science vanessa angel ) . he have a sweet boy next door demeanor about him and his real problem be he too nice and sensitive for his own good . the bad part about be sensitive be that the world be so full of crap and garbage and people be such asshole that your feeling get hurt too often and too easy and too much . good to be as cruel a the world or even more so and give bad than you get . believe me and i know of what i speak of . david schwimmer co star a jay best friend max abbitt and a sportscaster who a womanizer who play the field more than the team report on . a total creep and always with a dumb expression of his face and a self satisfied drawl and his own cool guy salutation represent what up . always a toothpick and a too cool drawl dangle from his lip . mili avital be unfortunately give the second to weak developed character in the whole film . she sweet and perky and photogenic . but nothing else and really . she and lee could have some great chemistry if only the film allow it . but this movie be write in a way that so make to order and it embarrass . bonnie hunt play the narrator that be publish lee book . she also the narrator . why do this movie need a narrator . the narration actually manage to make the movie even less suspenseful and if that possible . and vanessa angel and who break through in tv weird science and almost stole kingpin and be give the least interesting character . she play a model and jay heartless ex girlfriend who have dump him and leave him a pathetic neurotic mess . hers be not a character and but a plot device . the heartless bitch who be so cruel and horrible to the sweet hearted hero so more of our sympathy go to him . i groan at her scene . the movie dialog be not always plot driven or cutesy poo and like most romantic comedy be ( although sometimes it be ) . most of the script be write in an observational sit com kind of way . like seinfeld or mad about you ( or yes and even friend ) . but the dramatic or romantic scene be embarrassingly maudlin . be it just me or be the entire cast of friend be try to mimic kevin smith . the object of my affection kiss a fool three to tango smith groundbreaking romantic comedy chase amy be revolutionary and insightful . and make big wave for ben affleck and joey lauren adam and lee and smith himself . a romantic comedy and a sex comedy and a relationship story . not merely a love story and but a life story . lately and hollywood have be try to make smith like slick hollywood movie . so far and they fail terribly . smith movie be great because they be dare and avoid formula . and they master the art of sparkle conversation . this film do neither . nor do any of the other kevin smith wannabe . lee character have be through the ringer and thing be look bleaker . i really liked him here and felt for him . and identify with him more than i want to . i know guy like max in high school and but in the outside world . who know . i be kind of like the lee character myself . in a way and i still be . too sensitive . too easily vulnerable . such a whipping boy . i do understand what jay mean when he say and you know and i wish i have your heart . then i wouldn not have spend so many sleepless night . the plot seem cruel and creepy and yet too sit com like at the same time . test my fiancée fidelity . almost seem like a sick ploy to throw jay and samantha together and doesn not it . oh wait and it be . anyone who have ever see a movie will know what the end will be . it almost like wait for the coyote to fall off the cliff . schwimmer max abbit character seem to dumb and dull and annoy to be interesting . he must be sick of play the same type ( the pallbearer and six day and seven night and tv friend ) and but this movie will do nothing for him . still and at least he try . i keep ( back in 1999 when i first saw this movie ) see a mad ross try to be bad whenever i look at him and but now look back on it and put ross out of my head ( i really dislike the show anyway ) and schwimmer do an effective job . however he doesn not really have dimension and depth . he just not an interesting womanizer . apparently and a lot of schwimmer fan felt confuse by his role here . it feel like schwimmer want to play someone completely different without risk lose his hard core audience . schwimmer do do a much good job break typecast in the forgettable since you have be go and the memorable band of brother . memo to hollywood represent if youre gon na keep make bad kevin smith knockoff and at l quit put friend actor in them . by dane youssef .