first of all, can i just talk to the person who decided to change the cover art of the movie from the poster at the right, to the dvd cover (not pictured). bad. choice. the dvd cover sucks. a lot. that's all. thanks.ok on to the movie! decent. it's a nice change of pace from what i've been watching lately. something more light-hearted. but. it was predictable and a little boring. i really like the opening of the movie and how annie (scarlett) puts people into different exhibits. creative and well done. this could have turned out cheesy, but it didn't.
i thought that scarlett gave a good performance. it wasn't extremely memorable or anything, but it wasn't bad. however, i think that you could stick almost any "cute", "youthful" actress in this role and the movie would still play out the same. ultimately i think this was the fault of the adaptation from the book. i haven't read the book but the way the movie played out makes me think it wasn't really meant to be a movie.
chris evans was good. paul giamatti was good. the little kid was good. alicia keys was better than good but not great. she was in it for maybe 20 minutes altogether. i wish that wasn't the case. her scenes were really the only ones that i still remember. when reading reviews from "critics" when the nanny diaries came out in theaters, some were comparing laura linney to meryl streep a la the devil wears prada. not so much. more like meryl-lite. diet meryl. i know people personally who are bigger bitches than laura was in this movie. i'm not saying she wasn't good. she was. but not as good as the hype.
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overall - the nanny diaries receives a c+
-t
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