Verdict: Needs some heart
Here’s yet another romantic comedy about entitled, affluent, attractive, white people living in Los Angeles, in which the children are dazzlingly precocious and the adults behave like children.
That would be forgivable if it were smart, engaging or funny. But mostly it isn’t. It is populated by characters who make only tangential contact with real life as most of us understand it, and it feels like a confection from start to finish.
That’s a shame, because there is plenty of talent on show, starting with Reese Witherspoon, who plays Alice, recently relocated to LA from New York with her two young daughters and newly separated from her English music executive husband (Michael Sheen).