Tom Stansfield is your typical nice guy that always finishes last. Although he is a really good guy and seems like he has everything going for him nothing ever seems to go right for him in his personal or business life. But today as his friends tell him is his fateful day he is up for a promotion at work and might even be able to ask the girl he likes out on a date. That girl is the boss’s daughter Lisa whom Tom has had a crush on for the longest time. The problem is that is boss is a complete lunatic that could spin off at anytime and Tom is afraid to stand up for himself. But when he talks Lisa into doing it and standing up to her dad and going to a party she wants to go to Tom thinks he has hit the jackpot and that she wants to go out with him. But that illusion is about to be popped when he shows up for what he thinks is a date and finds out Lisa is not there. Lisa has pushed the task of house sitting for her father off on Tom who soon finds out that although this might be a chance to prove himself to the Boss that his Boss has an inordinate amount of rules and is just as crazy at home as he is at work. And of course the job is not going to be easy as all that can go wrong is about to go wrong as all sorts of housebreakers are about to show up and wreck havoc on Tom and the house but if Tom can manage to succeed he might win the job he wants not to mention the girl he wants as well.

The movie is an uninspired cliché and does nothing to set itself apart from all the other movies like it that came before and have done better. That’s not to say the movie isn’t funny, it is and it truly does have its moments but this is the kind of movie that could have been great but settled for mediocre. Ashton Kutcher has a charm that just seems to lend itself to the buffoons he usually plays but for some reason he can never find someone to costar with him that seems to have a chemistry with him. Tara Reid is not different in this film as she just seems to just muck through her lines and part with no desire to be anything more than a sub par actor and a distraction in the film. I honestly cannot see why anyone casts her for any part in any movie other than her looks, which are not that, spectacular either. A trained monkey could do her part as well as she does, and while not looking as good I could forgive the monkey for its superior action skills. That being said this movie is Ashton Kutcher and when he is on the screen he is funny, he is charming and he almost manages to save this uninspired movie. This to me is the type of movie you rent and maybe should have gone straight to video. Yes, I did laugh at times, yes the movie did entertain me at times, but no I was not blown away by this movie as it had a lot going for it and just as much going against it.
3 stars out of 5