Down to You (2000): Dir: Kris Isacsson / Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr, Julia Stiles, Henry Winkler, Shawn Hatosy, Selma Blair: Standard teen flick about discovering that someone who eliminates all others. It stars Freddie Prinze Jr. who loves to cook and specializes in smoked salmon. His father hosts his own cooking show and hopes that his son will follow in his footsteps. Julia Stiles plays an artist who designs album covers. Concept isn't bad but the rest is predictable with a conventional ending. Directed by Kris Isacsson with fine location work. The screenplay thrusts Stiles and Prinze through standard romantic clichés and a lot of bull crap. She is a woman thrust into confusion. Prinze Jr. is given a lame sequence where he digests shampoo. Perhaps that was his reaction to the script. He and Stiles also have hokey scenes where they sit around and eat cake. Henry Winkler might have been interesting on his own but the screenplay calls him to be at odds with his son's decisions and then forgive. Shawn Hatosy plays one of their friends who shows up and makes a total ass out of himself at parties. Selma Blair was a scene stealer in Cruel Intentions but here she can merely stand back and watch this travesty fall without romance or laughs. Pointless romantic drivel out for a few undeserved tears and a few sighs but never showing any originality or depth. Perhaps viewers may need the shampoo next. Score: 3 / 10
Review of Down to You
