The Movie: First of all, I gotta put out a major chick-flick warning on this one. And it's not a bad movie, but it is definitely, 100% a chick flick. I mean, while the Netflix jacket says it's a "comedy" and most of the main characters are guys, do not be fooled!

It's about a guy returning to his small town home (chick flick) for his 10 year high school reunion (chick flick) and sees how all his old friends have changed and how they haven't (chick flick). It explores a lot of different angles and way to look at relationships from different points of view (chick flick), and features a lot of people doing a lot of introspective evaluations of their current situation and life and their relationships with people of the opposite sex (chick flick). It's definitely more drama than comedy, though there were a couple of moments where I had to at least chuckle.

In some ways, each of the guys is like a different facet... a different reaction to love. You got your cold feet guy, your macho bravado cheater, your happily married guy, your mourning a lost one guy, etc, and at least from a guy's point of view, there's no way a guy can't relate to one or more of the guys in this movie and the situation they are in.

Again, it's not a bad movie, it's just a total chick flick. But it did hold my attention long enough for me to want to hang around to the end. And I do have to say that Natalie Portman was quite the talented young lady. It's too bad she hasn't had too many roles lately that really test that ability. I was quite impressed with her smart, easy delivery in this film.

The DVD: This is one of those old super-minimal effort DVD's from Miramax. You get absolutely zero special features. No trailer, no behind the scenes, no commentary, no nothing. The video transfer wasn't too horrible, though it was not anamorphic, and not the brightest or boldest thing I'd ever seen, and it showed some hints of edge enhancement. Then again, most of the movie takes place in a snow covered rural town in winter, so there weren't really many bold colors to convey in the first place.

The audio was pretty murky and flat. The biggest complement I can muster up for it is to call it "functional" since I did actually hear what was going on and understand what they were talking about, but beyond that, it did nothing to draw me in to the story. And again, no special features at all. The only reason the menu even exists I think is to select subtitles and chapter selection.