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Movie night: No Reservations

Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a not-very convincing professional chef who is married to her work, and has no life outside of running a gourmet kitchen in the movie No Reservations. There's a surprising and also rather unrealistic, depressing beginning, that changes her life drastically. Then along comes a new, also not-so-believable sous chef (Aaron Eckhart) into her world, and they butt heads a bit, then work things out. I won't share the whole story if you plan to see it. It's a little cheesy, and I don't really mean to make it sound so unappealing, because I still enjoyed it. Mainly because I love all the fancy food talk in it. Cat-Z-J is way too skinny to be a top chef, and extremely beautiful, so to get me to buy into her "poor me" role, it didn't quite work. Maybe because I was jealous of her. Even after all this negativity, I liked the movie and think it was worth my time. It was light and entertaining, and a decent movie. I give it a 3.5 on a scale of 1 to 5.
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Keepin' up with the Jones' said…
I actually just watched this last weekend. I thought it was a cute movie, but not fantastic. A little slow in times. I did not believe that she was able to get that apartment as a chef though!! I was glad I saw it, but wasn't my favorite.
April 02, 2008 7:15 AM
Sierra said…
Ya I was excited to see that movie too, and was actually really disappointed. It was okay and cute I guess but not great!! It was supposed to be a romantic comedy, and I found very little comedy in it at all.
April 02, 2008 9:19 AM
Kirks said…
I wanted to watch this movie and forgot about it. I will have to get it in my next flix order!
April 02, 2008 11:09 AM
Julie said…
I'm glad to hear your thoughts (and other's comments too) on the movie because I've been wanting to rent it but have been a little skeptical if it would be good.
April 02, 2008 1:13 PM
they call me mommy said…
Great review, Kelly. I love your honesty and candor. And did you take that picture? It's fabulous! Yum yum! I'll be right over.
April 03, 2008 12:36 PM
Maryanne said…
Glad to hear your review. I need a "light" move to see after seeing I AM LEGEND two weeks ago. I still haven't recovered from that!
April 03, 2008 3:04 PM
Lonna said…
This movie is actually a remake of a movie called "Mostly Martha". Which I think is way better. It has subtitles though because I think that it is in Italian. If you were disappointed in "no reservations" you should give the real one a try, they have some similarities, but you know Hollywood they like to take liberties and change a lot of the good things.
April 03, 2008 3:59 PM
Summer Adams said…
I kinda liked it too. I'm glad it was a clean movie.
April 03, 2008 4:58 PM
ninnies said…
Hey mom! I really enjoyed that movie, i thought it was really cute. It wasn't the BEST movie that I've seen, but I thought it was pretty cute.
April 06, 2008 5:20 PM
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