What Love Is (2007)
It's Valentine's Day and Tom has big plans. He's about to get engaged and has a surprise party planned to share the good news with friends. But things take a turn for the worse. Tom returns home only to discover his girlfriend has packed up and left him. Now, instead of a surprise party, the surprise is on Tom. Fortunately, his friends are there to help him make sense of it all.
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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Admirable film.
A Major Disappointment
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
I bought this from a bargain bin thinking it would be a light-weight romantic comedy, but oh-my-God, I did not expect what this really was. It was like watching a stage play... by David Mamet or William Inge. The dialog and timing is absolutely impeccable! And the subject matter so real and realistic - no, check that - so much BETTER than real life (we all wish we could be so clever in real life) presented in a realistic manner. Man, I love character pieces like this, but this moves so much faster than most character studies; there is no time to let your mind wander, let alone get bored (think "Noises Off" or "Send me a Tenor"). And the acting is incredible! Spot on. Tight group, able to play off each other extremely well, but I have to say Matthew Lillard is absolutely brilliant!! And Mars Callahan does it all - writing, directing, acting - with such grace it appears effortless. You HAVE to see this movie. F***in' unbelievable!!
This film is about a group of friends having honest discussions about what love is.I was hoping "What Love Is" to be entertaining and fun. With the amount of known stars, I thought it would be good. However, "What Love Is" turns out to be a great boring disaster.The entire film features conversations spoken at a rate of 10 words a minute. And I am not joking. There is not even a pause between one person and another. People humiliate and attack each other constantly, shouting loudly all the time. The end result is an endless tirade that cannot be described as entertaining at all. Obviously the filmmakers realises this, and hence added a fantasy scene of strippers. However, even the super big breasted Paris Hilton look-alike fails to save the film.
i started to watch this expecting it to be mildly amusing but overall watchable, and ended up not being able to force self to watch to its end.within 5 minutes it grated on my nerves from a non stop barrage of unrealistic dialogue between supposed friends which just didn't let up,and far from being a witty and interesting take on male/female perspectives it just seemed trite and annoying with 'maybe' the occasional observation that would have been funny if i wasn't already so far gone as to not care.if it wasn't so full-on in your face trying to force the characters views on you it may have worked,but am sad to say it is full on and doesn't work at all in my opinion,only giving it a 3 rating and thats because there's a small possibility it improved after i gave up watching it( which i doubt).
Keep your money. "What love is" appears to have been regurgitated by an unsuspecting toilet. That said, if you enjoy spittle punctuated rapid fire dialogue spawned by pubescent boys in high school locker rooms, this movie is for you. Credits do go to Mars however for stretching his imagination and gifting the viewers with verbiage so politically incorrect one wonders if it is truly imagination at work or do these thoughts literally reside permanently with Mars. If men are from Mars then where is Mars from? Yes I was at the premier in LA. Yes there was laughter. Yes there were 599 minds in the same gutter.This movie may very well end up being a cult classic.My condolences to a cast worthy of much better.