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Kidman again makes the same 2 mistakes.

posted 12 years ago by TheManInOil
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It's obvious she wants to do comedy, but her only successful comic performance was in To Die For, in which she was savagely brilliant. Here, she duplicates two of the elements that made The Stepford Wives a disaster.

1 - she plays a comic role 'funny'. Instead of playing it serious and allowing the situations and dialogue to make it funny, she 'acts funny', and she isn't good at that. It comes off as forced - although in part and in her defense it would be hard to make this crap 'funny'.

2 - she plays a lead who has a group of 'amusing' girlfriends. They are dead weight, and make it feel like a movie only intended for women who don't know comedy.

Ephron usually has a better comic barometer, and Penny Marshall's name is on this too. I'm not among those who think women can't be funny. The talent involved clearly can. Just not here.

"I'll book you. I'll book you on something. I'll find something in the book to book you on."

[–] shirleyp92 10 years ago

Actually, she is so likable and funny in the Adam Sandler 'Just Go With It' and I she was fun in 'Practical Magic' and 'Batman Forever'.

I never saw 'Moulin Rouge', but that was supposedly her breakout fun role.

Whatever comes off as forced is probably a result of just how distracting her plastic surgery become; almost like, frozen her face and expressions. Anyway, maybe Nicole Kidman can play a different type of "funny" role, like the cool bratty wild child or the great b*tch roles? You should see 'Just Go With It'; she is hilarious in it.