everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A Brilliant Conflict

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This movie is very corny, to say the least, but there are some neat scenes. Gerard Butler need to find better scripts.

Gerard Butler proved in 'PS. I Love you' that A) he can't do an Irish accent and B) that he can do well in this sort of throw away romantic comedy, so it's no surprise to see him popping up as the headliner in this all star comedy.It's a decent enough film. It has some good laughs and a fair bit of heart. I don't think all of the characters work, or that the casting of them is as spot on as it could be. I liked Jessica Biel in her role though, she did well.It's a passable enough film, but one I don't think anyone is ever going to claim is their favourite film ever.

Playing for Keeps is a romantic comedy that features Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel together with Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Dennis Quaid.The screenplay is about a former professional soccer star that has reached the end of his luck as financial troubles keep brewing him from day to day.It was directed by Gabriele MuccinoGeorge Dryer is a former soccer pro whose attempts to raise money has been nothing short but futility which keeps him in financial troubles.Then one day,he decides to rebuild his relationship with his son by becoming the football coach of their team.In the process,many mothers throw themselves at him as he is charming and good looking.As his relationship with his son progresses,his former wife also realizes that she still loves him that they soon end in as a happy family.And guess what?He goes out of financial trouble as well as he was hired by a sports network to be their analyst after many failed attempts in doing so.Gerard Butler has definitely been consistent in embarrassing himself in bad romcoms.He gets to do so once again in Playing For Keeps as the story was both witless and humorless.Also,the comedic scenes were definitely far from funny as categorized all mothers having young kids as whores.This definitely insults actual mothers who are actually involved with their children's activities in school.Also,the story was somewhat a disappointment for it was unoriginal,clichéd,flat and predictable.What's worse,we get to see bad performances especially from Biel who overacted in her portrayal of Stacie and as she has no chemistry whatsoever with Butler.Overall,this romcom simply fails at all levels for both humor and romance was definitely missing.

A heartwarming family feel-good film, as it would be described on the trailers. This movie is boasting with an all-star cast, what with the obvious heartthrob Gerard Butler, and the queue of beautiful actresses; Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman and Jessica Biel, with this all star cast I was expecting a somewhat comedic romance movie which would leave me weak at the knees and all teary-eyed and what not (given that the director, is responsible for the likes of The Pursuit of happiness). Clearly as I'm saying this, it was not the case, I was quite disappointed, given Gerard's usual talent in this type of genre and the amount of star talent in this movie. I felt at times this movie was trying to hard to fit into that uniform "rom-com" category, I mean don't get me wrong there were some funny points, but at most times I found that they were trying to hard to add some comedy into the movie. Butler plays a retired soccer player George Fryer, who is trying to kick start his life again, in the form of his career, love life and his son. It follows his return to the town where his son resides and him taking over the position of coach for his son's team. This takeover is made difficult by the parents, more specifically the females, of the children who he is coaching who take a particular like to him and his good looks. The film plot itself is very typical romance and hence very predictable; ex getting remarried, broken relationship with son and a non existent career. I for obvious reasons cannot say why I predicted because then it would give away the ending, but as soon as he moves back to Virginia for his son, it is very clear. Now the movie wasn't all bad, the story with his son is somewhat touching, but I feel I don't have a lot to say as like I said was disappointed at this movie.Some of you out there are likely to enjoy this more than I did, especially if your a female who wishes to be Gerard Butler's next wife. I would not recommend paying cinema prices to see this movie, but to wait until it hits rental or sky movies.