HOW DO YOU KNOW...It sucks really bad?

Wow, leave it to James L. Brooks to take amazing actors, an estimated budget of $80,000 and his super uncomfortable script to make one of the crappiest movies of 2011.

From the opening montage of Lisa (Reece Witherspoon) growing up to be a member of theUSA Olympic baseball team to the sad stereotype of Matty (Owen Wilson) playing a douche bag pro ball player who is as likable as a piece of burning rubber on your doorstop to the less than believable relationship between George (Paul Rudd) and (Jack Nicholson), How Do You Know sucks at every turn.

Lisa meets Matty who resists commitment and intimacy at every turn.  Although she's been sold to the audience as this strong and resilient character who inspires her teammates, she is so easily manipulated by Matty, it's annoying. You and I both know when people are in love, they act out of character.  We get weak in the knees, become blind to obvious signs, apply this blind trust that only love can bring out in us and obsess over the smallest things.  Perhaps if Lisa had been head over heels in love with Matty, it would have been easier to believe. She was almost indifferent throughout the whole film. They had good sex and that seemed to be the extend of their relationship.

Then the lost puppy dog, George, enters the picture and ads a few moments of comedic refuge. Rudd still manages to make people laugh through the mediocre editing and bad flow.  He was a highlight of the film and made is almost bearable. I was waiting for a moment that justified investing almost two hours of my life……that moment never came. Waste of money, waste of talent, waste of time.