Because I Said So review
Daphne is a exciting, spiffy and shed weight distraught middle-aged coddle, so as expected she’s played by Diane Keaton, the most beneficent clobber in many a garden-variety girlie comedy (see ‘Something’s Gotta Give’, ‘The Family Stone’, etc.) The female hub here is clear from the insane: men are barely to be seen as Daphne and her trio of gorgeous daughters snicker, quarrel and plot to marry off lone singleton Milly (Mandy Moore), a childlike caterer with a suspiciously in all probability-trained singing speech. Daphne resorts to an internet ad, but fails to commend Milly of her organize, so her daughter is approached by men her watch over has already vetted in secret. The deception storyline is then sidelined for sugary dilemmas: should Milly choose the smarmy architect with tons of cash or the petulant musician with a cute kid? Clearly, this is no intellectual brave, but Milly does use words like ‘aberration’, so it’s aimed marginally above the unimaginative moronic dreamed-up comedy hawk. It scores occasionally, mainly thanks to Keaton’s completion, but heavy-handed dollops of schmaltz mean that it remains in the aforementioned no great shakes territory.