We watched No Reservations last night.

The trailer gave the impression that this is a romantic comedy. There’s not much comedy. Actually it’s mostly serious with amusing instances. However, it is pretty good overall.

My only quibble is how clean the chef jackets and aprons were in the restaurant kitchen. No matter how hard you try to keep them clean in a full service, it’s nearly impossible. At least that was my experience in culinary school.

Also, it appears that this is a remake of Bella Martha, which I bet is better.

3 truffles out of 5.

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1. I didn’t see No Reservations, but I did see Mostly Martha. It wasn’t bad, as in I have no active desire to impale alive anyone involved in its production. But I honestly don’t remember anything about it except there was a crusty chef who had to take in a little girl.

   Posted by Pisco Sours  on  07/14/08  at  09:46 AM

2. That’s funny - that kind of sums up this version. Although, really, how crusty can Catherine Zeta-Jones be?

   Posted by  on  07/14/08  at  10:07 AM

3. The ending was cute, but resolution came too easily.  It’s almost as if the filmmaker got right up to the last 10 minutes of cutting the film together and only then realized that he needed to wrap thing up all of the sudden.

   Might’ve been a good movie for foodies, but kinda without sizzle for the rest of us.

   Posted by Rob O.  on  07/14/08  at  10:45 AM

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