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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

When I analyze a romantic comedy,I try to be more fair than I usually am because I am conscious of the prejudice I have against that genre. My displeasure for those prefabricated sugary fantasies does not come from any bitterness or spite.I think it's just cynicism.My main objection about that genre is the manipulation of the woman and the typical cliché:every woman needs a man for being happy.Let's suppose that it is true in the majority of the cases:Is it necessary to preserve that fantasy on a so obvious way? Sure,from the romantic comedies from the 50's we have seen a lot of changes...women are not chained to the kitchen and they do not anxiously wait their husband when he comes very tired from working.On the modern romantic comedies,women are liberated,intelligent and owners of their destiny...but emotionally frail and lacking of intern stability...at least they catch the man of their dreams.I do not want this to seem as a hypocrite feminist manifest...after all,I am not a sexist.I simply do not think all that leads to making good cinema.I was filled with enthusiasm during the first half hour of Cake:in spite of being weakly written and disastrously directed,at least,it was focused on an unusual main character.So,the film started well,but then,the film falls in the typical formula and the final result is a crap.I do not recommend this movie to anybody.The screenplay is pathetic,the direction is disastrous and the characters do not provoke any interest.Heather Graham is charismatic and she gave some points to this poor movie.If the film would have taken the clichés for making something innovative,the film could have been fun.The only good points from this movie are Graham and the first half hour.I usually enjoy Canadian movies but the only thing Cake did was copying the clichés from almost all North American romantic comedies.

** WARNING -- SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN ** The plots contained within the inexplicably named "Cake" seem forced and very contrived. However, the relationships and characters make this romantic comedy an enjoyable enough way to spend an hour and a half. The hoary chestnut of a plot has pseudo-feminist Graham, committed to never making commitments, awkwardly fulfilling her obligations as a bridesmaid to friend Sarah Chalke, before winding us, at her father's behest, taking the helm of a bridal magazine after the old man suffers a heart attack. Sandra Oh, Taye Diggs, Cheryl Hines, and Sarah Chalke all supply superior comedic support with their character roles. I wasn't familiar with the young actor playing Graham's main stereotyped gay assistant at the magazine, but he is very good, making me enjoy him and care about him despite his stereotypic roots.Heather Graham seems to be imitating Kate Hudson throughout, but she makes an agreeable-enough substitute. Bruce Gray is monotonously one-note as the father. I also would've much rather seen her wind up with much more interesting Diggs than cookie-cutter leading man Sutcliffe, but the film wasn't made for taking those types of risks. And Sutcliffe has a nice-enough smile that you can't really begrudge him his happy ending too much. Conclusion, if you have an hour and a half to kill and want to watch a harmless romantic comedy, Cake will more than adequately satiate you.

In a perfect world, Heather Graham would be as bankable as, say, Julia Roberts.Graham certainly is prettier than the Pretty Woman, has a better sense of comedic timing and, let's face it, has eyes you could disappear into. (Any straight guy who says otherwise is, well, probably Republican.) Trouble is, Graham isn't going to be America's sweetheart - I don't know if she wants to be - if she keeps making films such as "Cake."I realize Graham executive-produced this film. What was she thinking? Surely she saw Tassie Cameron's script as just another run-of-the-mill romantic comedy replete with the clichéd love triangle and tired stereotypes.Perhaps Graham needs a new agent - especially after the "Emily's Reasons Why Not" debacle. She has some good films on her resume -"Bowfinger" (1999), "Boogie Nights" (1997), "Two Girls and a Guy" (1997), "The Ballad of Little Jo" (1993) and "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989). But the roles that stand out are Rollergirl and Felicity Shagwell and it's the clunkers that seem to define her - "Lost in Space" (1998), "Say It Ain't So" (2001) and "Killing Me Softly" (2002). Now, add "Cake" to the mix.Cameron and director Nisha Ganatra don't even bother masking their film's hackneyed plot. Which is a shame because they have a talented cast. There's Graham, Taye Diggs, Cheryl Hines, Sandra Oh (who's terrific on TV's "Grey's Anatomy") and Sarah Chalke, who knows what it's like to do genuinely funny comedy on TV's "Scrubs," which, for my money, is the best half-hour on TV.Graham, much like Roberts, isn't a masterful dramatic actress. Her turn as English hooker Mary Kelly in "From Hell" (2001) was admirable, albeit miscast. But Graham clearly knows how to play comedy. She just needs good material. Her nine-episode stint as Dr. Molly Clock on "Scrubs" proved as much.There's never a moment in "Cake" when you think, "Oh, this is different." Cameron's script is so atrociously lazy that she never bothers to include even the slightest of surprises. Poor Graham flays about buoyantly in a valiant, yet futile, attempt to elicit laughs out of this bad script.In "Cake," she's Pippa McGee, a spunky, care-free travel writer suddenly forced to take over her dad's magazine - a bridal periodical. There's some humor in the decor of the magazine's offices as this sprightly, independent feminist tries to handle things. But the story is so clunky and her two love interest so unreal and dull, there's not even a modicum of sense to this whole enterprise. Pippa spends such little time with the men that it's asking a lot of us to believe either would work.As much fun as it is to see the luminescent Graham bounce around, she certainly deserves better than this mediocre fare.

I've been a fan of Nisha Ganatra's since Chutney Popcorn and have been eagerly awaiting her latest film, so I was really glad to get the opportunity to see a screening of Cake. While romantic comedy isn't exactly my favorite genre, I really enjoyed this one. Sometimes a lighthearted, well paced, fun film is just what you need for a little pick me up and Cake is that kind of a film. It was well directed and the whole cast was great. Heather Graham and Taye Diggs were wonderful, but Sandra Oh as Lulu was my favorite. They all had me laughing out loud. This was a really fun and enjoyable film. I've already recommended it to friends; when will it be in a theater near me?