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LL Cool J (Kingdom Come, Rollerball) and Gabrielle Union (Love & Basketball, Two Can Play That Game, The Brothers and Bring it On) bring us a romantic comedy in the general vein of Maid in Manhattan and Two Weeks Notice. Where it varies is that is has edge with a capital E as it is a sexy comedy (rated R for sex related language), has sharp dialogue throughout, and a great sound track which at times has the punch of 8 Mile.
LL Cool J (Ray) is a player with the women and his work life. A year at either and it's time to move on if not before then. Gabrielle (Eva) manages the family trust of her and her three sisters as well as their personal life. One is married and is not sure she's ready to have a child; another doesn't want to have sex with her boyfriend unless and until they get married and the third keeps her husband at a distance because she's as uptight as Eva.
Eva is a health inspector who insists on a clean kitchen with the same intensity that George Bush (big and little) want a certain leader out of office in Iraq. When the three significant others are kicked out of the family room where they are looking at a football game to make way for a book club meeting, they end up in a bar where they meet Ray. Observing how he can control ladies that know how to put a brother in his place, they hire him to use his amorous charms on Eva so she will lighten up on her sisters and the relationship they have with them.
Eva is a piece of work….when she walks in on her sister about to have sex with her husband he says "Don't mind us. We're just having sex." to which Eva replies "Oh, so I should come back in, what, two minutes?"
Later the normal scowl on Eva's face is replaced with a smile when she tells the girls at the beauty salon (this is not a Barbershop type movie), "We went back to my place for a nice, respectable evening…..and then we burned a hole in the floor!"
One of the good thing about romantic comedies is you can see a film in which you know will have a happy ending. This films starts out somewhat predictable but strange as it seems, the characters are developed to the point that Eva with her friends and family hit pretty close to home.
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