Next Best Thing

Pros: Great Premise
Cons: Bad character development and scripting

What happens when two best friends accidentally conceive a child during an alcohol filled night? Well what if he was gay and she was straight? That’s the premise for the “Next Best Thing”.

Cast
Madonna (Abbie)
Rupert Everett...

Pros: Great Cast
Cons: Madonna's fake british accent!!!!!!!!!!

I rent videos on a regular basis. Having four children, my husband and I do not get out much. Seems people aren't so keen on watching a mouthy ten year old, a hyper six year old, and twin two year old toddlers who get into everything. So, we do the...

Pros: Interesting movie about what makes a father and a family
Cons: Not enough focus on the real life issue at hand

The Next Best Thing is a story about how even the best laid plans don't always work out. It shows how raising a child can change your life forever and your relationship as well. The idea of raising a child with your best friend may be very...

Pros: Rupert Everett, Ben Bratt, Plot , Humor!
Cons: Madonna's version of AMERICAN PIE

This is a funny, touching, and unquestionably controversial story involving best friends. Although the movie jumps off from an "alternative" family (meaning one of the "parents" is gay) focus, that focus is really incidental to the...

Pros: Entertaining
Cons: Not the world's best acting

Question: What would happen if "Will" & "Grace" drank way too many martinis one night, ended up sleeping together, then produced a child? Answer: The Next Best Thing.

I found myself drawing...

Pros: A couple good lines, soundtrack
Cons: Dreadful writing and bad acting!

I happen to be a huge Madonna fan. If she is in it, no matter how bad the reviews were, I'm willing to watch it. But I can admit she is not the greatest actress. If she finds the right role, she can be pretty good. She did a great job in Evita and I ...

Pros: Rupert is good
Cons: Madonna is bad

This romantic/comedy/drama has been slowly building up bad buzz for a good while now. It began when the script was first pitched to mega-star Julia Roberts, but subsequently rejected by the star. Obviously she saw what Madonna didn't, the fact that the...

Pros: Rupert Everett is pretty charming
Cons: Cheesy Movie with no talent coming from Madonna' s corner.

There are just some lessons that I'll never learn. Like Madonna's movie's, for instance. Although I have yet to find one that I was impressed with, I've still seen them all. Why? (a darn good question that deserves a reasonable answer....here goes) I...

Pros: doesn't gloss over the ugliness of divorce.
Cons: doesn't gloss over the ugliness of divorce.

I HATED this movie. It was soooo depressing I wanted vampires to come suck my blood out so I wouldn't have to feel the pain of the American family anymore. I'm through with people and with relationships. I'm not gonna have kids and if I do, I'm gonna...

Pros: None
Cons: socially conscious movie gone completely awry

The Next Best Thing is a very noble movie, but noble does not necessarily equal good. It’s a movie on a political crusade that forgets halfway through it that it is, in fact, a movie. Instead, director John Schlesinger uses the movie to voice...

Pros: A different look at family.
Cons: Madonna! Madonna! Madonna!

Mother plus father, plus baby makes for a happy household. Add a new boyfriend into that equation and it is not too pleasant. This is the simple plot to The Next Best Thing, an ordinary movie that is sugar coated to the max.

Director...

Pros: Good movie, with endearing aspects
Cons: Benjamin Bratt takes his shirt off and I had to hear about how inferior my chest is.

Yes, I will go to the so called Chick Flicks. I'm sensitive and all that good stuff.
A Quick Yes or No to see it?
I'd say YES.
I was even surprised this is only recommended only 45% of the time.
Seriously, what were people looking...

Pros: good mixture of comedy and drama
Cons: resolution was to simple

I was planning a trip to theater this weekend, but had no idea what movie to see. The Next Best Thing is the only movie (that I would be interested in seeing) I had seen a preview about. I read some reviews on epinions and thought maybe it was not...

Pros: Some genuinely funny moments. Everett is a gem.
Cons: Unnecessary twist towards the end. Becomes a cry-fest.

“The Next Best Thing” is a major departure for director John Schlesinger, who previously brought to the screen such fascinatingly edgy and uncomfortable films such as “Pacific Heights”, “Falcon and the Snowman” and “Marathon Man”. For such a talented...

Pros: A different side of parenting and filled with quirky humor
Cons: sad story

Stay in tonight. Pop some popcorn. Pour yourself a Pepsi. Sit back and watch this movie. It's worth it. I truly enjoyed this movie. Then again I rember clearly the 80's. So Madonna drew me in to see this movie. I can still rember her performances in...