I was so expecting this movie to be awful with all the negative press, but it turns out it was wrong. It seems this movie combusted because of the Bennifer connection, when actually they are barely in the film together and the film itself is very good, in fact it may be one of Kevin Smith’s best. And yes I am a fan of his films already (well accept for Dogma which I hated), and this was an enjoyable film, and one outside of the normal Kevin Smith film universe.

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…

Jennifer Lopez plays Gertrude Steiney the wife of Ollie Trinke (Raquel Castro) a successful PR guy, but while giving birth Gertrude dies, leaving Ollie alone with his daughter Gertie Trinke (Raquel Castro). When his father the heavily drinking Bart Trinke (George Carlin) won’t take care of Gertie because he needs to go to work, and then Ollie has a meltdown at a PR meeting for Will Smith just before Independence day was to open. Ollie is left with his daughter, and working as a street cleaner for 7 years as his daughter grows up. Eventually Ollie meets local video store clerk Maya (Liv Tyler) who is going to have sympathy sex with him because he hasn’t had sex in 7 years, but Gertie catches them in the shower. Things continue to heat up, and Ollie helps a town meeting to approve some local work, and loves it and decides to go back to work. He calls his old assistant Arthur Brickman (Jason Briggs) to set up a job interview, and is going to move back to New York with his daughter who doesn’t want to go and leave his father and Maya behind. He is supposed to have a job interview at the same time as Gertie has a school singing with her whole family and Maya. Ollie runs into Will Smith and talks about his children, and Ollie runs back and misses the interview to be in the show and stay with his family, and Maya.

This is a very enjoyable film, a very good and cute romantic comedy about having children. You can see that Kevin Smith has matured and so have films, and it is a shame that this film died and undeserved death because of the whole Bennifer thing.