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Big Yawn, deserves 1/2 a star
I was looking for a fun rompy romantic comedy. What I got was flaccid mediocrity. It was poorly acted, had unappealing characters, a choppy plot, really, really bad cinimatography and awful sound quality. I was kind of bored and dissappointed considering the great cast and the potential for rollicking "Sex and the City" type fun. What happens is this ad exec sleeps with a different woman every night. At least he feels bad that he can't remember their names. He falls for a new woman in his office, but pretends not to be attracted to her because she's "bookish," which she isn't at all. He sleeps with her anyway. He also has a thing for this beautiful model who he can only admire if her imperfections are airbrushed out. Suddenly, he discovers he's lonely. The bookish woman suggests he see a shrink. The shrink is a creep, but our lonely guy continues to see him. And watching him sit around with his friends talking about their sex lives is as cringing as fingernails on a chalkboard. The Sex Addicts group he joins is mind-numbingly awful. He realizes he's in love with bookish woman while in bed with the "woman of his dreams," the model, and so he decides to become celebate to win his new love's heart. It only goes downhill from there. It really wants to be an endearing, charming movie, but falls very short. Don't waste your time or money.

The lovechild of "Sex & the City" and "What Women Want"!
A smarter, more-thinking person's romantic comedy. A movie that seems to have filtered out the obnoxious slapstick, point A to point B theme, trite plot points, dumb characters, monotone dialouge and Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan's routines.

Oh, there are quite a few cliches' in this movie, all right. The playboy who's tired of the game and wants to settle down, the bookish love interest who has no patience for his antics, the sexist supporting characters, the geek, the unobtainable finally obtained... only to realize that...

But "Giving it Up" is more than that. It doesn't rely entirely on that as so many other rom-coms do. "GIU" is a well-played, thoughtfully-written, smartly concieved look at men, women and their views on sex and drelationships.

It takes the time-honored storyline of the playboy with the princely lifestyle who's willing to give it all up for one woman and circles it around a group of genuinely human and realistic characters. Feuerstein is a charmer, Ben Weber and James Lesure (From "For Your Love") are convincing and likeable as his best friends.

And although it sounds like the storyline from "What Women Want" (which also featured Feuerstein), no two movies could possibly be more polar opposite. Ari Larter as the foul and lecherous super-supermodel Amber is also good for a few laughs.

See it alone for the near Oscar-worthy performance of the magnificent Dabney Coleman, more hard-nosed, sexist and snarling than ever.

*** 1/2

Also recommended-- other off-beat ROMANTIC comedies: High Fidelity, Say Anything..., What Women Want, When Harry Met Sally, The Sure Thing, Chasing Amy and Shallow Hal.