The summer movie that gives new meaning to the question “Do you know what your husband’s been up to?” Jen (Katherine Heigl) is vacationing in Nice, France with her parents who want to help her get over some nerd back in the states who apparently just dumped her. Jen’s mom (Catherine O’Hara) is a drunk by day and night, while her suffocating dad (Tom Selleck) is an ex-marine/pilot who expects perfection with any man who wants to marry his daughter. Enter Spencer (Ashton Kutcher) a screwball James Bond, hit man who crosses Jen’s Polyanna path in the hotel elevator. Fast forward three years later and they’re Mr. and Mrs. Suburbia with track housing and block parties. If you’ve lost faith in Heigl’s performances, this is the one that reminds you why you liked this cute tight-wound, sexually frustrated girl in the first place. And with Kutcher and his charming/boyish ways, the two have more chemistry that she did with last year’s summer rom-com mate, the boorish, Gerard Butler. As a matter of fact, Robert Luketic who brought you The Ugly Truth, directs this. The problem with the story, however, is that once Spencer’s secret gig is exposed (about ¾ of the way through) the movies’ gun-slinging antics get old. That said, as far as summer comedies go it’s not so bad. And it could be worse. It could be Sex and the City 2. Two and a half tiaras
