The Top 10 Highest-Profile Straight-to-DVD Releases
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
5. I Could Never Be Your Woman
The Big Losers: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd
Deservedly Dumped?: Michelle Pfeiffer intended to end her hiatus from acting with Amy Heckerling’s 2006 romcom, not with 2007’s Hairspray. But, per Entertainment Weekly, distribution problems resulted in two years passing before I Could Never Be Your Woman was banished to DVD in February. In this cougar version of Suburban Girl, forty-something sitcom producer Michelle Pfeiffer falls for a younger actor (Rudd). Unfortunately, Michelle Pfeiffer seems less comfortable acknowledging her age than does her whining divorcee. Rudd’s too old to play 29 and he expends too much energy trying to be goofy and endearing. Like our chemistry-free lovers, the film shows its age. Heckerling’s efforts to be hip—through endless pop-cultural references—would have come across in 2006 as sadly self-conscious. Today, though, Will & Grace and crunk jokes stink worse than over-ripe brie.
Stars: 2