This one is very funny, but surprisingly raunchy and profane. I've never seen Drew
Barrymore ("Whip It") throw back her head and laugh the way she does in this one.
I really like seeing her so unrestrained!

Her character is in New York working as an intern for a newspaper; she meets
a guy the night he breaks up with his girlfriend. She starts out by berating him
in a profanity-laced, four-letter-word verbal assault; he's pretty impressed by her
mastery of the language but he makes her laugh, so they start dating. It is agreed
that she will be returning to California in a couple of months, while our hero, played
by Justin Long ("Saturday Night Live") stays gainfully employed in New York, so
there will be NO romantic entanglements. ...Yeah...right....

A couple of things should be acknowledged: 1) This movie illustrates the
employment challenges that confront the young adults in this country these days. 2)
This is another film where the romantic lead gets all of his relationship advice from
his single, immature male friends.

Once our gal is back in California, she stays with her married sister and family. This
is one time I'm happy to eat my words. I have never had much use for Christina
Applegate ("Samantha Who?") but here I found her to be consistently funny and
appealing as the mysophobic sister, constantly scrubbing and sanitizing everything.
By the way, potty mouth seems to be a family trait.

Of course bi-coastal relationships are fraught with peril, and this one is no different.
Both of our lovers are lonely, so they are in constant touch: calling, e-mailing and
Instant Messaging. They even try phone sex, but neither of them know enough
about it to be very successful. To me, the funniest thing was when an irritated friend
snatched our hero's cell phone, grabbed a golf club and lambasted it into Kingdom
Come! I led the applause for that one!

No big surprises. Romantic comedies are what they are. We laughed more than we
expected but will be glad when Drew's contract with CoverGirl expires. She's a little
overdone....