Oliver (Ashton Kutcher) and Emily (Amanda Peet) met on a flight from Los Angeles to New York seven years ago--each of them declaring that they couldn't be more wrong for each other. Life keeps bringing them back together over the next seven years, but the timing never seems right. As they struggle with their different partners, careers and breakups, they turn from casual acquaintances into trusted friends who can say anything to one another. As they search for love and a relationship that's not fated for disaster, it takes seven years for Oliver and Emily to figure out that maybe what they really have is something…a lot like love.

I really shouldn’t have liked this movie as much as I did as a lot of the story was so contrived and overplayed but for some odd reason I really enjoyed the movie. You could almost call the movie a lot like that romantic comedy you saw last month but just different enough to entertain you. The movie really does nothing to set it self apart from all the other movies just like it but it throws just enough of a twist, just enough of a spin on what you are expecting to be entertaining and fun to see. If I had to pick on anything in the movie it would be the dialogue as neither character had deep meaningful conversations that ever lead anywhere, just rather trite little small talk like conversations that made it seem hard that these two could so easily fall in love with each other. Maybe it was a lot like love both characters were so alike and yet so different that love just seemed natural to them.

I for one think both Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet are fine actors that sometimes just really pick the wrong roles. I for one wish Ashton Kutcher would keep expanding and showing his talents in movies like the Butterfly Effect and I expect more from Amanda Peet that the cute loveable, quirky girl she keeps playing. But what made the movie work is that Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet had screen chemistry and you could see them as a couple. That is important in romantic comedies like this as the two characters need to make you feel love is possible between them. I don’t think the movie could have ever been great but it was what it was, a cute funny movie that entertains and strives for no more.
3.5 stars out of 5