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Down
to You
by
Elizabeth Gray
Wimpy
Down
to You is a romantic comedy about two young
college students who meet at school and fall
madly in love. Al Connelly (played by
Freddie Prinze Jr.) is interested in
becoming a chef like his dad, Chef Ray
(Henry Winkler), who has his own cooking
show on television. Imogen (played by Julia
Stiles) is a budding artist and designer who
loves cake and art galleries. The couple has
an intense relationship until she thinks she
is pregnant, and even though she finds out
she isn't, everything starts to unravel...
And
so does the movie. This movie could have
been a quirky, fun, romantic comedy. With
Henry Winkler as a television chef and Lucy
Arnaz as his disc jockey wife, there was so
much opportunity for humor. I would have
liked to see more scenes on the set of the
cooking show. Why have a veteran comic actor
such as Henry Winkler if you aren't going to
use his comic genius? When Chef Ray wanted
his son to do a television show with him
traveling around in a truck filled with
food, surprising unsuspecting people in
their homes and cooking for them, why did
that not happen? The comic possibilities
were endless.
The
movie should have concentrated on the
relationship between Freddie Prinze Jr. and
Julia Stiles, who have a sweet on-screen
chemistry, and on his parents. Instead,
writer/director Kris Isaacson chose to focus
on a group of flat, stereotypical background
actors (the couple's college friends) who
dragged the story down into a commentary
about the boredom of youth and the
disillusionment of relationships.
It
was when the couple came back together at
the end of the movie, living together in San
Francisco, that I wished the real movie
would start.
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