Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo

Cert: 12A

This has got an absolute roasting. Critics have been queuing up to slate this film. And I still went to see it, just so I could review it personally for the lovely readers of Funny.co.uk. Guess I'm a masochist.

It's really not that bad. No, seriously, it's not. It's the movie-of-the-book-that-was-also-a-movie-that-was-maybe-based-on-real-events. In this case, The Graduate.

The film starts with a slightly overlong monologue/voiceover as Anniston explains the point. Certain people in Pasadena believe that the events of the book The Graduate were based on real life, and it turns out that Anniston herself (or rather, her character Sarah Huttinger) might be the child of the affair.

Filled to bursting with curiosity, she tracks down the Graduate in question, Beau Burroughs (played with easy charm and nonchalance by Kevin Costner) and...well, finds out rather quickly really.

First - the good stuff. This is a pleasant, funny, gentle, nice, sweet, romantic date movie of a comedy The cast, especially Shirley MacLaine as the Grandmother (for those keeping up, that would make her Mrs. Robinson) who has all the best lines, are enjoying themselves. They're not being stretched, particularly Anniston who is playing Rachel from Friends with a different name. But they're having fun.

The bad stuff is that the initial set up isn't followed through. The Big Question - is she really her fathers daughter? is settled about half way through. The film ends up being about Who Is This Woman? - which we've seen before. Jennifer Anniston spent several years of her life playing this character, for goodness sake.

Ahem. I'd say that this film is worth watching if you're a little bored, you find a cheap cinema, and you want to be able to turn your brain off for a couple hours. And the soundtrack is nice to, very appropriate to the moment.