Last night I went to a premier showing of the new summer hit The Perfect Man.
The movie is being marketed this way, "Funny, fresh and full of surprises, The Perfect Man is a humorous story of love, longing and leaving and what can happen when good intentions go awry. At the story’s heart is the romantic notion of finding the perfect partner…and on the not-so-romantic flipside is a portrait of a family that’s just dealing with the ups and downs life brings while trying to stay together and stay put—at least, that’s what the story’s protagonist, teenager Holly Hamilton, is hoping for."
While the above description is true of the movie I see the movie as more of a picture about a relationship with a mother and a daughter, than one about trying to find the perfect man. The mother, Jean, played by veteran television actress Heather Locklear, is the perfect example of a woman who has to find her identity in a man. She has one failed relationship after another and rather than deal with her disappointment and search out the reasons why she is failing in these relationships, she chooses to uproot her family and move to another town. This isn't the best way to parent your children. This gets old for the daughter Holly, played by Hilary Duff, as you see her blog about what it is like to be on the road all the time because her mother continues to run away, dragging her from place to place so that she can't even get close to someone and even go to a dance.
Not surprisingly, the movie shows how the pattern of leaving to avoid intimacy begins to carry through into the daughter's way of thinking as she finds herself being cared for by a young man she goes to high school with.
Article comments
1 - Fred Olmstead
The reviewer says, quote, "And sadly, the audience I was in really enjoyed the overt homosexual humor and just confirms how much Hollywood has been able to brainwash the public into believing that homosexuality is okay and normal and healthy. Research shows anything but."
Now, what the hell does that mean?
I haven't seen the movie. It may be good, it may be bad. The inclusion of a gay character may be gratutitous or not. I don't know.
Whatever, I cannot see how the above quote does anything but confuse the issue and insert a strong bias on the part of the reviewer. So, now it's Hollywood's FAULT that people might think being gay is OK? And, what research?
2 - EdFromNJ
There are too many gays being prostituted in movies and tv nowadays, period. I don't see why its necesary to insert your opinion of whether homosexuality is wrong/healthy/acceptable in the middle of a movie review, other than to start a flamewar.
3 - Nick Jones
Actually, it's been the gays and lesbians I've met in my life who were just good folks that convinced me that homosexuality was okay - no Hollywood brainwashing needed.
4 - Aaman
You just ruined a perfectly good review by inserting your biases into it. Next time, you report, we decide
Nice review, otherwise
5 - Stacy L Harp
A review is about opinion. I reviewed, you decide if you like the movie or want to see the movie based on my opinion.
6 - Tsukiyomi
Saying so was very... umm, can I say: Unprofessional? This might be the reason you are posting reviews on a crappy blog, though.
Ooops, let me opinion get in the way of a comment.
7 - Ratto
Gay is a state of being ( IT ALSO MEAN NICE AND BEAUTIFFUL, JOYES ) you are born with it. You too are born either white, yellow, red and black. Only Christer can dispute that and that is a sorry state. No reputable science can prove otherwise. Is that new lynching or holocaust you people are trying to do ? What satisfaction do you get from this. Seems to me grouse. Most of my male friends are gay and very nice!
8 - Bennett
Don't mind Stacy, she really can't help herself. When I think of brainwashing, I think Stacy.
"Hollywood has been able to brainwash the public into believing that homosexuality is okay and normal and healthy. Research shows anything but"
Anyone else would have a link to back up their twisted bais, even to a christophile website of some sort. But not Stacy, she just parrots back all those Sunday school tidbits from her fundie church class.
So sad.
9 - CHULITA
I LIKED THE MOVIE. IT'S ENTERTAINING, I FOUND IT ENJOYABLE .. IT'S A KID'S FLICK// LET THE KIDS ENJOY IT// FOR THE GAYS AND LES'S // DO YOU EVERYONE LIKES WHAT THEY LIKE// I PERSONALLY NEVER SEEN THE POINT IN IT BUT THAT'S LIFE.. CATCH YOU LATER