In Good Company Release Date: December 29, 2004 Starring: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Selma Blair, Marg Helgenberger, Philip Baker-Hall Directed by: Paul Weitz
GLENN KENNY'S REVIEW (posted 01/13/05)
Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace, as, respectively, an old-school magazine ad sales guy and a global-vision whiz kid eager to conquer new turf, work up a nice chemistry in this comedy from Paul Weitz (who codirected About a Boy with his brother, Chris), who seems here like he wants to make a nice, quiet, smart comedy à la French director Eric Rohmer, except he doesn’t have the wherewithal to renounce the Hollywood blandishments that come with making such a Hollywood film, and also he doesn’t write as well as Rohmer. In any case, it’s too bad Grace and Scarlett Johansson, as Quaid’s daughter, who starts seeing Grace after Grace has become Quaid’s boss, don’t work up anything resembling chemistry. Indeed, Johansson is so bland here that watching the film I began to wonder, to paraphrase Smokey Robinson, whether the talent I saw in her was just a mirage. (I don’t think it is, I’m just sayin’.) The movie has some pleasures, but can be heartily recommended only to those who like their entertainments equally inoffensive and inconsequential.
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