Review of Because I Said So (2007) by Chads. — 29 Mar 2007
Would a mother really pick up her cell-phone in the middle of sex to gab with her daughter? Rather than treat this seldom talked about act as the disturbing perversion that it is, the film treats this parental kink as a demonstration of Daphne's close bond with her girls.
If Amy Sherman-Palladino and John Waters collaborated on a script, it might look something like "Because I Said So"...and then they'd burn it. The tone of this "Gilmore Girls Gone Wild"-like chick-flick is so frothy, you almost miss the skanky fact that Milly (Mandy Moore) is sleeping with two guys.
Worse yet, she's sharing a bed with Jason (Tom Everett Scott) because the dude is loaded. That's why it's hard to sympathize with Milly when she learns about the genesis of her enterprising relationship.
Meanwhile, Johnny (Gabriel Macht), the love of her life, realizes that Milly is indeed a skank, and you pray that he doesn't go Jerry Maguire on us in order to win the girl back. He has a young son that says "'gina" everytime he sees a woman.
In a film that shows a senior citizen visiting porn sites(and a dog who knows how to use it), the tuna that Milly uses for her cooking demo is probably meant to be euphemistic, a cookie for those pervs who are aficionados of anatomical slang.
"Because I Said So" is pretty dirty for this genre, maybe refreshingly so. Given the choice between a film that puts you to sleep, or drives you up the walls, I'll take the latter. Be forewarned: "Because I Said So" has not one, but two sing-a-longs.
This review of Because I Said So (2007) was written by Chads. on 29 Mar 2007.
Because I Said So has generally received mixed reviews.
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