Earlier this week I was exposed to the trailer for the forthcoming romantic comedy Friends With Kids. I haven’t posted it until now because I’ve kind of confused by it.
On the one hand, the movie is stuffed to the gills with actors I love including Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm and Chris O’Dowd. But the trailer positively reeks of plot contrivances and romantic comedy tropes that usually only attract the likes of Katherine Heigl.
In other words, it looks dumb and I think I kind of hate it?
Watch for yourself.
Truthfully, I don’t even think you need to see the movie now. The trailer pretty much gave it all away.
Also, what the hell happened to Jennifer Westfeldt? She was an adorable chipmunk in Kissing Jessica Stein. Now she looks like she’s been wrapped in plastic.
What’s your reaction to the Friends With Kids trailer? Leave your comments below!
1) why does Chris O’Dowd’s character have to be American? His own accent is awesome and sexy.
2) I’d probably not seek this out in a theatre, but I’ve not seen anything in a theatre in over a year now simply because prices are so high. BUT, I’d probably watch this when it comes eventually to Netflix Instant (though I don’t think I’d put it on my disc queue), ’cause sometimes I prefer to just stream a dumb movie when I’m under the weather or we’re trapped inside the house during a snowstorm…