No Reservations
Totally insipid, overlong, supposed comedy about uptight New York chef (Catherine Zeta Jones) who inherits a daughter when her sister is killed in an accident and her over-tidy life is turned upside down. Not only that, but she is forced to share her kitchen with a bohemian type joker (Aaron Eckhart) who annoys her so much that he later becomes her love interest and teaches her a thing or two about life, just as the girl Zoe does. 
Abigail Breslin in this role is the best thing about the film, followed perhaps by the sumptuous photography of Stuart Dryburgh when he’s filming the food. The rest is so predictable that it is a pity such good actors, and I include Patricia Clarkson as the restaurant owner in this, are forced to put up with this drivel. No chemistry, no spice. It just doesn’t make the grade.
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