Man To Man - Hot Chocolate

Advantages: Quirky, endearing performances. Restrained Carrey
Disadvantages: Random gross-out moments are misplaced.

...Carl is a man who doesn't say "yes" to much. As a result he has managed to be rejected for promotion and has become isolated from friends as he lets them down time after time. Endless DVD nights on his own are commonplace and his life becomes more tragic by the minute. However, a chance meeting with an old friend may well change all that as Carl is about to become the man who likes to say yes! "Yes Man" is massively different from what I was expecting. The concept is almost a verbatim copy of Jim Carrey's previous film "Liar Liar" and I was expecting more of the same. However, refreshingly this is a more subtle affair from that rubber-faced slapstick comedy. A gentile romantic-comedy, "Yes Man" contains a surprisingly subdued Carrey and is better for it. Carl's self-loathing and pity is clear from the outset and this makes him... Read review

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Advantages: Very easy to read, excellent story, wonderfully written
Disadvantages: A bit slow to start

...Although it?s over a month since I read this, I still think about it sometimes, and for me, that?s one of the things that makes a great book!! The book is centred on Paddy de Courcy, an Irish Politician who is about to get married, but it is from 4 different perspectives throughout the book and we only actually meet Paddy through the other characters. The book opens with a newspaper article - ?De Courcy to wed? before going into each of the characters individual sections for the actual content of the story. ~ Lola ~ The first section of the book is written by Lola, who is Paddy?s girlfriend and is devastated to discover that he is getting married and it?s not to her! Lola?s first section is over 100 pages long and is written in first person in a journal like form. I found this was quite difficult to read at first as some... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent acting, powerful story
Disadvantages: Dated now

...and powerful way. I thought that they portrayed the suffering of an autistic savant person very well and did not make the character out to be stupid or less of a man than he was. I thought that Dustin Hoffman who played Raymond did an amazing job and I am so glad that he won an Oscar for his performance. He managed to make me feel a whole different range of emotions, one minute I was feeling sorry for him as he was unable to take being out of his routine and the next minute I would be laughing at him for some silly story he was telling Charles. He really did the role justice and had me believing that he really was a sufferer. Tom Cruise played the role of Charles and at the beginning of the film I did not warm to his character as he was quite arrogant but after about half an hour I did start to warm to him and I liked how he managed to portray... Read review

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