The New York Times movie critic pens what I believe might be the greatest review ever

[Missy Vixen]

Let's just say he hated the movie, and proceeded to tell us all why.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/movies/katherine-heigl-in-film-based-on-janet-evanovich-novel.html?src=me&ref=movies

The first paragraph is a thing of beauty. I wish I'd written it myself.

“One for the Money,” the latest Katherine Heigl vehicle to park itself in the multiplexes, is also the title of a best-selling novel by Janet Evanovich. It is worth stating this fact at the outset to avoid the mistaken but entirely plausible assumption that the phrase somehow made its way onto the lobby posters from the subject line of an e-mail from Ms. Heigl’s agent.

It's only exceeded by the final paragraph.

Speaking of television, the one mildly interesting thing about “One for the Money” — apart from Debbie Reynolds’s scene-stealing shtick as Stephanie’s grandmother — is that it offers a data point for those studying the cultural decline of cinema. I don’t mean this in any grandiose or melodramatic way. Not long ago it would have been possible to convey the bland, lazy, pedestrian qualities of this picture — its lackadaisical pacing, by-the-numbers performances, irritating music and drab visual texture — by likening it to a made-for-TV movie or an episode of a series on basic cable. But nowadays that would be praise, and movies like this must set their own standard for mediocrity.

Disclaimer: I enjoyed Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. In the right hands, it would have been hilarious, campy fun. In Katherine Heigl's hands, it's a mess.

I haz a sad.

[Quantess]

1. did you go see it?

[Missy Vixen]

3. I won't be seeing it

Heigl is irritating under the best of circumstances. She's laid waste to multiple rom-coms already; I didn't want to watch her trash a series I truly enjoyed through the first 10 books.

Are you planning on seeing it?

[hlthe2b]

2. I'm not a Katherine Heigl fan & thought she was irritatingly overwrought on Grey's Anatomy...

But, at least she was part of an ensemble cast and the talent of the others often tended to carry her.

I can not imagine who goes to see her "star" films. I have seen a few minutes of two in the video store and while stopping by a friend's house and chatting with her (then viewing) daughter. That was quite enough.