A very pleasant romantic comedy, varying the themes of Cyrano de Bergerac and Pillow Talk. The quality of the dialogue is superb, and the acting (especially by lead Janeane Garofalo) is excellent too, not to mention the excellent job done by the dog and its trainer. However, the plot has one gigantic hole: the male lead (Ben Chaplin) is supposedly unable to distinguish the voices of the two female leads; giving this character some kind of a hearing impairment would have saved the plot, but the writers did not dare.
Apart from that (admittedly major) flaw the only other problem with the film is typical for the genre: the story focuses too much on the leads, it does not give the minor characters enough room to develop an identity.
Apart from that (admittedly major) flaw the only other problem with the film is typical for the genre: the story focuses too much on the leads, it does not give the minor characters enough room to develop an identity.