My Film: 'Larry Crowne' 5-7-11

Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts star in a shockingly bland and boring romantic comedy. Both Hanks and Roberts have been in some fantastic movies (Forest Gump, Pretty Woman) yet this one just didn't hit the spot. Tom Hanks directed a bland, lifeless, sexless and entirely wishy-washy autumn-years romcom – co-writing it with Nia Vardalos, whose box-office smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding he and his wife Rita Wilson shrewdly brought to the screen as producers in 2002. Hanks himself plays a straight-ahead nice guy who is downsized from his job in a big store; he takes an adult education course at the community college and finds himself falling for jaded lecturer Mercedes Tainot, a stunningly bad performance from Julia Roberts.

It lacked excitement and I contemplated just leaving until George Takei enters the film. He alone made this bearable.

Boring, not worth the money that most people paid to see it.

My Star Rating:

3/10 *