Andover

I'm not sure if this was a love story or a horror film. Either way I couldn't quite take my eyes off of it. Anyway, in my experience those two things are pretty closely related, LOL. I recommend you watch it with an open mind. I didn't expect to feel bad for someone who was doing such terrible things.

Hubby sold me on watching this, he said it was a Sci-fi Romantic Comedy. How could we go wrong? Well, it went very, very wrong. The whole feel of the movie is off. Nothing about this movie makes any sense. Strange and creepy and not at all funny. At least we got a good laugh reading the real reviews! Don't be fooled by the 10/10 reviews.

First of all, the plot is weak to say the least. Plenty of things don't make any sense and that's without even considering the cloning part. The performances aren't awful considering the quality of the script. The character development is nearly unexistent (as in, the characters have no personality, at all) Now the worst part for me is the message of this movie. This guy basically kills a woman over and over again because she's not what he wants her to be or doesn't love him back. Not a premise I'd have a problem with if this was a satire or a dark comedy. But this is supposed to be *romantic*, and we are supposed to root for this guy and empathize with him like he's entitled to do what he does (because he's just "grieving". Not a valid excuse to kill people, in my opinion, but oh, well). It could have been done with, say, robots (as in "not sentient beings") and it wouldn't be as creepy. But no. In a world where women get beat up to death and burned alive because of those very same reasons, this movie is absolutely problematic and downright disturbing (apart from being a horrible movie as a whole) I wish I could downrate it into oblivion.

I can't believe that anyone would give this more than four stars. This is the death of online reviews. Andover is funny in small parts, but not for the most of it, so it has earned two stars. Overall, the acting was mediocre, if not dire, with the best performance coming from Scout Taylor-Compton. I find the movie more of a horror than a comedy and many of the jokes just do not come off. Andover looks like something that a group of college students would produce and the storyline lacks any substance. It's not totally clean or funny like the top review says and leaves much to be desired. I regret wasting 90 minutes of my life on such tripe.

The movie starts with a shot on a sleeping woman wearing full makeup including glossy lips. Then a man in his 40s or something is "trying' to make a pancake, he keeps burning one after another instead of reducing the gas flames. Then he brings one unburned pancake to woman sitting on a toilet. Then 2 women, again wearing bright makeup suitable for a cocktail party, blowing glass in front of a hot oven. Welcome to Hollywood! Next!

A man gets seemingly unlimited opportunities at a second chance, but in the end, all he really gets is one more. How many times have we wished that we could do things over... and over? How many tiimes HAVE we had a secomd chance, just to mess it up again? It seems that somes things are meant to be, and some are not. That some things have a time limit. They are good until they run their course, then nothing can make them right again. That sometimes, we have to admit that things have changed, and find a new direction. Jennifer Finnigan looks likke no one else in the world, has a unique personality, and is a pleasure to watch. She steals every scene she is in. This film has everything. Sadness, and loss, comedy, " Quit beating yourself up!"..discovery and happiness. And it tells us not to force things. To let life come to us. You can't make someone love you. and you can't live in the past. A great supporting cast, and a REALLY original story.