Ashton Kutcher better stick to dating older women and leave
movie making alone if his performance in the new movie,
”
My Boss’s Daughter,
”
currently playing at Premiere Cinemas, is any indication of
what’s in store for his future.
This one-hour and 41-minute release from Dimension films is not
as bad as
”
Glitter
”
or
”
Ishtar.
”
I haven’t seen
”
Gigli
”
yet so I can’t comment on that.
Ashton Kutcher better stick to dating older women and leave movie making alone if his performance in the new movie, “My Boss’s Daughter,” currently playing at Premiere Cinemas, is any indication of what’s in store for his future.
This one-hour and 41-minute release from Dimension films is not as bad as “Glitter” or “Ishtar.” I haven’t seen “Gigli” yet so I can’t comment on that.
But this is easily one of the worst wastes of film stock that I have seen in a long time.
To start with, Kutcher looks abnormally pale with bright red lips as if his make-up was done by someone from a silent movie set in 1903 instead of 2003. He delivers his lines as if he was still rehearsing for “That 70s Show.”
Director David Zucker, who has a talent for bringing comic farces to the silver screen with movies like “Airplane,” and “Ruthless People” really missed the mark with this movie. And I thought he had hit rock bottom with “BASEketball,” in this he sinks to a new low.
The plot, what little there is of one, centers around Kutcher’s character, Tom Stansfield, a young man who moves to New York and tries to work his way up in a publishing company.
Along the way, Tom becomes smitten with his boss’ daughter, Lisa Taylor, played a little too over the top by Tara Reid.
Trying desperately to impress Lisa and win her love, Tom unwittingly agrees to house sit for While she goes on a date with her boyfriend Hans.
Tom is left to try and please his boss, Jack Taylor, played oddly by the usually dependable actor Terrence Stamp.
For some reason, instead of playing Jack Taylor like a highly-demanding, overbearing father, his performance was more like that of a drag queen in a snit.
Tom is asked to keep the immaculately cared for home in tact including the pet owl named O.J. “After the killer?”
“No. After the football player,”
It’s that kind of lame dialogue that keeps this movie from ever getting off the ground.
So of course as soon as his boss leaves, all heck starts to break loose, including an unscheduled visit from a neurotic secretary, Audrey, played by Molly Shannon.
Even an unexplainable and gratuitous set of cameos of a barely clothed, Carmen Electra adorned in short shorts and a T-shirt about three sizes too small.
