I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)

Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) is a Boston high power executive who is trying to do it all. She often leaves her husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) and her two kids for work trips. He's starting a new firm at the worst time. She's having a big meeting with the big boss Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan) in New York.The constant narration and testimonials are annoying. Maybe it's a compelling story for the working moms of the world. It's certainly doesn't make it fresh. I get the intention but it's not the least bit funny. In the end, that is all that matters. There isn't one good laugh. Olivia Munn comes closest to actual comedy.

I enjoyed the lightweight book "I don't know how she does it" when I read it and was excited to see a movie being made about it. Unfortunately, the previews were better than the movie itself.The movie itself did not draw me in to care about the characters the way the book did. This could be due to the time constraints of the silver screen, but I think it was more due to a poor screenplay adaptation that introduced too many characters with too little development. I also disliked how the characters frequently broke the 4th wall, giving the movie a cheap and overly cheesy feel.Another poor decision in the making of this movie seems to be the use of established actors and actresses (Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn) in the cast. I think the casting decisions were meat to help draw viewers to the box office, but the film was poorly cast with chemistry that fizzled almost as soon as the movie began rolling.Regarding the female lead, SJP has never impressed me as an actress, and while she became Carrie Bradshaw in SATC over a decade, she does not translate well to the big screen. I've seen her in The Family Stone, Failure to Launch, and now "I don't know how she does it", and she has failed to be someone I like or sympathize with in any role. She acted particularly silly for someone who is supposed to be an investment banker in "I don't know . . ." and I found myself rolling my eyes at the ridiculous screech/scream that she somehow happens to sneak into any role she plays.Very disappointing movie . . .

Vacuous, and an insult to all actual working wives and mothers. How on earth did this nothingness cost so much to produce, and just why was it ever released? It fails miserably on all criteria.Why has the movie industry lost the ability to understand the difference between 'A NAME' and 'ACTUAL TALENT'? The rest of the world still knows the difference, hence the slating this movie has received. So sad to think of all the wonderful, raw, blossoming talent rotting in the gutter. Surely time for the movie industry to grow up, open it's doors and make full use of all those that it has left out in the cold - and to stop insulting us, as the paying public, with garbage like this.Emma.

A mother running a family and keeping a job, how groundbreaking. What's interesting is that Hollywood writers seem to think that working mothers really give a **** about competing with a bunch of Chanel wearing housewives at a stupid school bake sale. I always tell my husband if our child is so easily traumatized she's just not going to make it. Other than the fact that at work you get to meet good looking men who offer you a kind of escape from your daily headaches at home, this movie really isn't all that accurate. It's what I always thought a working mother's life would be...when I was 20 and in business school. Clearly Hollywood never graduated.