Review of Flirting with Disaster (1996) by Cat F — 28 May 2004

[FONT=Georgia][B]Can you imagine if Patricia Arquette and Steve Buscemi had offspring? Think of all the teeth... I had a little time to think of all the teeth, as this flick has a few slow spots. It also has several stand-out hilarious moments, belonging to Tia Leone and Lily Tomlin. Not between them, mind you, but they each have them... which is completely unsuprising, as they are two of the best comedic actresses out there. I want to see them in a movie with Joan Cusack. (paging CoreyFeldmans... there's our cast for whatever script we write) oops, again I've drifted off into my own thoughts...

Anyway, the basic premise is that Ben Stiller is an adoptee, looking for his birth parents so he can get a sense of who he is before naming his now 4 month old son. He gets distracted by a neurotic Leone and his wife, played by Arquette, is distracted by an old high school chum, now metro- homo- and somehow also bi-sexual. Leone is the adoption agency rep who is helping Stiller, only her info is wrong wrong wrong, adding up to sub-hilious hijinks. The good news is, when he does finally find his parents, they're played by Lily Tomlin (YAY!!) and Alan Alda (yay) and they're pretty damn funny. Oh and his adoptive parents are played by Mary Tyler Moore, in a very funny turn... and that guy who plays the dad on [i]Just Shoot Me[/i]. If you catch this, be warned: the closing credits fearute MTM going down on Mr Just Shoot Me and frankly, I'm emotionally scarred.

All in all, this film is like when you order won ton soup and you get a huge bowl with one tiny but delicious won ton in it: ok, but it left me a little unsatisfied.[/b][/font].