cricketbat This film was good, but it wasn't that good. The actual story of Amy Adams and her clean-up business was interesting, but every story surrounding that just felt half-baked and uninteresting. It should have been better.

Thomas Drufke Impression- In its short 90 minutes the film comes off as a heartwarming comedy that is about family. But it's more depressing than happy. Really, at the end of the movie none of the characters really come full circle. Adams seems as though she finally doesn't care what her friends think. But she doesn't make any progress in her work. It's not like she's really going to be making more money by the end anyway. Blunt's character doesn't make any progress. She ends up driving off in the sunset? To do what? How does she have any money for this trip?Complaints- My first gripe with the movie is the opening scene. I thought they could have found a much better way of introducing the movie than a man shooting himself in the head. It was rather startling for me, who thought the movie was about two sisters in a cleaning business. I unabashedly love Emily Blunt but without her accent she didn't have the same appeal. I liked how in your sisters sister they explained Blunt accent my having her be adopted. They could have done the same here. I realize this is a rather strange compliant but I just find Blunt's accent to be incredibly seductive. The character development in this movie I thought was pretty poor, with that being said I thought some of the characters were actually the strong points.Praise- With the script that they had, I loved the acting that was portrayed. I thought Arkin and Clifton Collins Jr were strong points among the cast. Not to mention the young kid who probably has a good future ahead of him. And even in his darker moments it had its funny moments. Arkin shared plenty of great one liners. I also thought there would be much more to the binocular story. But it was merely a way of reminded us the mom had died. I thought the ending was sweet when they both finally saw their mom on T.V. Adams and Blunt are very good at dramatic moments by the way.Overall the movie isn't anything special and is full of clichés, but with the acting and the memorable scenes it deserves a somewhat favorable review.6.7/10

Rich Wright Is there, something that me, as a bloke, is missing here? It was directed by a woman. It was written by a woman. All the complimentary reviews on the box are from female publications. Perhaps the fact that while viewing it, feeling as bored and unfulfilled as I did, is down to an absence of estrogen in my system.I like to think not. I've seen plenty of so-called 'chick flicks' in my time which I've thoroughly enjoyed. Everything here though, from the one-armed love interest, to the disabled kid who's wiser than his peers, if straight out of screen writing classes 101. I've seen it all before, and done considerably better too.Worst still, nothing really happens. There's some half-baked nonsense about sisters coping with their mother's suicide and loser of a father, as well as extra marital affairs and taunts from old classmates. None of this adds up to anything interesting, and you just end up staring at the screen, while the stock characters and their tedious conversations wash over you.There is the germ of a good idea here. Who wouldn't want to see what cleaning up after a crime scene entails? These parts are the best in the movie, and witnessing the various fluids on the floor and our amateur Mrs Mops's reaction to them provides for a few sick laughs. But with the rest of the unoriginal tripe that's bundled along with it, make the movie impossible to recommend. 4/10

Marvin Corea It ends too quickly... What happens with Winston? What happens with Nora? Another loose end was Nora's acquaintance that worked at the blood bank. It seemed like that relationship ended all too suddenly.It would have been nice to see Rose surpass her high school classmates, especially the classmates at the baby shower that appeared to look down on her after she told them she cleaned up biohazards. I like the fact that Rose was able to turn her life around. But after the disaster, she seemed to give up. I wish she would have persevered. But luckily Dad helped and it turns out that everything would be OK. And it seemed like the son turned out OK as well since he went to a new private school and seemed to be happy.