Love and Other Disasters (2006)

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Simply put, this is one of the WORST MOVIES I've ever seen. I am a big movie lover & I especially enjoy romantic comedies. In fact I love romantic comedies so much that I cut them a huge amount of slack. I also usually like Brittany Murphy. But this excruciating piece of garbage is so bad I'm hard pressed to think of a worse movie. I don't believe for a minute that all the positive reviews posted here by supposed viewers are all real. There's just no way this dreadful, tedious, completely unfunny film entertained more than a handful of strange people. (And I can't imagine who those people would be.) Just take a look at the professional film reviews for this filmed disaster & you'll see only bad reviews. I wouldn't even recommend this ghastly thing to people who enjoy watching & making fun of really bad movies. "Love and Other Disasters" has absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever! Avoid it like the plague!

There's a dialog introducing the Argentinean character that says he was found at Ipanema Beach! For me, as a Brazilian, it is almost an offense. If the writer was American I would understand it because they normally don't know anything about other countries. When I was young I studied in New York and it was very frequent for me to have to answer questions such as "Are there snakes in the streets of São Paulo?" Or "Is Buenos Aires the capital of Brazil?" I hope that this sort of thing doesn't happen anymore. We are living in an instant communications era! Today's films should have better revisers concerned with details about geography, politics and general knowledge to avoid incorrect information.

What a complete bore this film was. One dimensional characters with a bland script. I fell asleep half way. I sometimes wonder if anyone watches these films before they are released. This movie tries to be hip and youthful, funny and clever, and warm and heartfelt and fails dramatically at all of them. I reckon that all the cast went around telling everyone that they were in a film with Paltrow and Bloom except of course Paltrow and Bloom who must of stumbled across the set whilst looking for the toilet. They found it. The main character "jacks" was so annoying I found myself hoping that she would be hit by a London bus. Oh yeah, and where the hell do they think you can find an straight Argentinian who lets you think he's gay for more than 10 seconds...jeez. Dawn French, you really don't have to do this. Angus deaton, you do.

This film was a mixed success for me. Being a comedy-of-errors kind of film, it surely has to make it new, as so many films came before it;and, yes, it is true, Brittany Murphy, seems somewhat - not quite displaced, not quite doing an effort - but she is not aesthetically ruinous, I mean, the film has pace problems, wants to include too many things, has some true moments of dialogue and nuanced English acting that make it work and truly redeem it, others that seem preheated --but!watch it just for the sake of Dawn French, playing the psychotherapist with such gusto, that even if it's for two minutes, it's a riot!We can comment on the rest of the film, this way, and that way, but just for this, it's a must see.