A Lot Like Love (2005) 
The second Kal Pen movie in a week
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While Kal Pen did not play a starring role in this film, I think it is safe to say that he added something. I noticed him. In the last film I saw I did not notice him. Apparently, his character was named Stanford.
As for A Lot Like Love, it would be easy to spit out the age old romantic comedy slam, but that is not what this page is all about. For some reason, the Seattle Public Library system owns at least one copy of this movie and this copy was sitting unborrowed on the shelf when my wife went into our local branch to pick up the latest No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency book. The next thing you know, its Sunday night and we are watching Ashton Kutcher and some girl go through a relationship where they really connect but let life get in the way of their relationship. Happily, when watching this movie at home you can also do things like, clean the kitchen and fold laundry while viewing the film and not miss much. And to be fair, I did come back to watch A Lot Like Love several times when I could have taken a book into the other room. So it is not painful to watch, it does have a story and good looking characters, I always have a hard time when people talk about on screen chemistry. The only thing to be fairly dissappointed by in this movie is Kutcher’s lack of funny moments. I loved his work in Dude and That Seventies Show, but maybe he just can’t carry comedy on his own.
