Poor Jessica Alba. Poor, poor Jessica Alba. Try as she might to save this dog of a film, she can’t quite pull it off.

Writing: This comedy falls flat in between some of the clever notions it presents. Frankly, it’s a movie that should work, and the fact that it doesn’t really says something. Just like the recent The Heartbreak Kid, this movie is buried under severely out of place explicit sequences. While it might not be quite as bad as The Heartbreak Kid at it, the end result is the same. I’m all for mixing genre and style, but trying to bury these sweet natured stories amidst soft-core porn productions simply doesn’t mesh. At all.

Production: Can’t recall anything either particularly good or bad to comment on.

Cast: Like I said, Jessica Alba’s performance and her character are absolutely lost amidst the rest of this film. Again, I can equate it to The Heartbreak Kid, where the fantastic Michelle Monaghan was also unable to save the otherwise disaster of a film. Oh, and I will say that Lonny Ross (who plays Josh on 30 Rock) was a nice touch to play the brother for Alba’s character. Though with his small amount of material, he can’t do a whole lot to save the film, either. Dane Cook is unmemorable in pretty much every way. And Dan Fogler, who I liked in Balls Of Fury, can’t manage to make his debased best friend character work (a tired genre staple).

Music: I have zero memory of anything having to do with Aaron Zigman’s score. He is a talented composer, so I’ll just go on the assumption that it was a decent enough score since I don’t remember particularly disliking it or anything.