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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Hugh Jackman starred in 2 romantic comedies in 2001. One where he played Leopold, Duke of Albany in Kate & Leopold and the other is this film Someone Like You where he plays a womanizer called Eddie.The film is about a woman called Jane (played by Ashley Judd) who is in love with a guy called Ray (played by The Last Song's Greg Kinnear)and thinks that her life is perfect with him. She even tried to buy an apartment so that they can be together. But out of the blue and Ray gets cold feet and dumps Jane for no reason at all at a restaurant and she is heartbroken. So she decides to get even and invent on a guru called Dr Marie Charles and sets out a theory on men behaving like animals especially cows(don't ask). She asks her womanizing friend Eddie(Hugh Jackman) could she be his new roommate as he is looking for someone to live with him and he accepts. So with Jane's plot to sell her story to the world on her theory with cows will she ever admit that it was her all along,and will romance blossom between her and Eddie? And is Ray(her ex boyfriend's reason to dump Jane in the first place was because of his crush on Diane(played by Ellen Barkin).Directed by Tony Goldwyn(who is the voice of Tarzan in the 1999 animated film Tarzan and star of Ghost with the late Patrick Swayze),I watched this film today all because of Hugh Jackman. He can turn his hand at anything, romance,drama,comedy,musicals etc. So it was nice to see him act all charismatic in this movie where he is a hit with the women. But to be honest I thought the best romance movie he did was Kate & Leopold because lets face it he was just dreamy in it and hilarious at the same time.Someone Like You reminded me of 27 Dresses in away minus the bridesmaids dresses. Bottom line I thought it wasn't that bad I enjoyed it for what it was as I love romantic comedies anyway and its nice to see this movie on a lazy Sunday afternoon.5/10Alternative Title: Animal Husbandry/Animal Attraction

I am not a big fan of romantic comedies, and I really didn't have much of a choice when I watched this film - it was the only one the airliner was showing at that time when I was 30,000 feet up in the air. A story about a daytime talk show hostess who writes a sexiest column about men's behavior after being jilted by her boyfriend and gaining fame in the process, I thought this was an OK movie to pass the time.This movie has its moments from time to time - light comedy, romantic twists and drama. I thought Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackson had pretty good chemistry in their respectable roles, but I thought Greg Kinnear gave a very wooden and emotionless performance in his role. The plot did drag at times, but not to the point where it would put you to sleep.This movie isn't a masterpiece and not something I would watch over and over again. But, if it happens to be a movie I would come across while channel surfing, I might stop and watch just for kicks.Grade C

Girl meets boy, boy dumps girl, girl meets other boy, other boy and girl are platonic, other boy and girl fall in love. Sterling cast and a proved plot line (if done well). Unfortunately, this movie was not done well. This movie was dull, dull, dull. There was no spark in the dialogue or spark from the stars. There is a marvelous cast, but they were all, everyone one of them, dead on arrival, phoning in their performance, absent without leave. You get my drift. Granted, the dialogue was bad, but it was worse than just bad dialogue. We've all seen good actors deliver bad lines like they were golden. I blame the director. Yeah, that's it. He did it. Then, to add to the wasted time, when I went to rate the movie, I had already seen it, but I had no recollection of it at all. That's when you know the movie is a void

Quirky comedy dealing with love and all sorts of relationships. Men here are depicted as being absolute stinkers and it takes the end, when a man shows compassion to his wife when she miscarries, is a little too much to contend with.Relationships should not be compared with cows. This was the most ridiculous analogy that one could even think of.The best performance here is Hugh Jackman's Eddie Alden. He is a no-nonsense brash type of guy.Didn't anyone notice the following error in the film? Jackman: (Eddie) "My girlfriend works in the emergency room and when someone croaks, she looks at their address. If it's under rent control, we've got it made." Sorry writers, rent control per say went out in 1970 with vacancy decontrol. In other words, when Jackman took possession of the apartment, it was under rent stabilization!Greg Kinnear gives a much too restrained performance in this film. Imagine, telling Ashly Judd to give up her apartment and move with him, and then after she gives notice to her landlord, he reneged.If I wanted more of this film, I could have rented Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.