I Love You Too (2010)

To me, this movie is perfection.

That was an excellent one.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This is a tragic comedy of a contemporary Australian suburbia, in which bonking a pub-met-stranger is a unisex very normal life-style advertised.There is something sweet in this movie depicting in general a local environment expertly also, in spite the common perception of sexual activities locally, the most of unknown males-in-twenties in streets met randomly revelled their virgin status predominantly-long distances and public transport jumps contribute to down-the-earth socialising between persons unfamiliar.It is nice to realise, that my research is perfectly testified by movie makers emphasizing on the lacking of human warm and communication as the very issue for "egalitarian" Australians.You will never ever know if you never ever go.Watch and enjoy a fairytale of lost in time and space people adult legally.

Australia doesn't produce many rom/coms and while I Love You Too is just another romantic comedy on a wider spectrum, it is a refreshing little delight on a local level. The story is cute. The performances are great (Peter Dinklage is fantastic) and the gags hit the spot. I really really enjoyed this movie and think its the best of its kind since The Big Steal (which also featured Steve Bisley). Peter Hellier has written a smart little movie with a lot of heart. The little revelations throughout are really nice and the movie is well worth watching. The miniature railway setting is a nice touch too.... (Eltham Mini Railway... LOVE IT).

Jim (Brendan Cowell) and his best friend Blake (Peter Helliar) are in their early thirties and still enjoy hitting the clubs together. Jim is far more successful in meeting women than Blake is but his encounters rarely last more than a single night. When he meets Alice (Yvonne Strahovski) in a club they both happily expect to be together for just for an evening but their relationship continues for another three and a half years. Jim works in the largest miniature railway station in Australia, while Alice is contemplating an important job offer back in the UK. She is frustrated in seeing other people strengthening their romantic entanglements, while Jim has still not proposed to her. When Jim embarrasses Alice over dinner and cannot bring himself to say that he loves her, she decides she will leave him and take the job offer. Distressed, Jim hits the bottle and the clubs once more and ends up sleeping in someone else's car. The vehicle belongs to Charlie (Peter Dinklage), who is initially going to call the police, but he decides he will try and advise Jim on how to make it up to his girlfriend.For almost a decade now Australian cinema has seen both the very best and worst comedies that an industry could offer. The fluctuations in quality can largely be attributed to the types of the scripts that are produced. There are some like Kenny (2006) that are perfectly tuned to Australia's unique brand of humour and present colourful but wholly relatable characters too. Then there are those like The Extra (2005), so painfully devoid of laughs, that they tarnish Australian films collectively as being lacklustre. I Love You Too, directed by Daina Reid and written by co-star Peter Helliar, falls somewhere in the middle of the Australian comedy spectrum. It is a frequently crude and improbable film but it at least knows where its heart lies. Its predictable narrative offers familiar and transparent themes of mateship and the importance of responsibility, with sporadic laughs along the way. The film's main setup in having to win Alice back is problematic because it is difficult to accept that someone so beautiful would be willing to tolerate a buffoon like Jim. Jim's dialogue in the restaurant scene is so obnoxious and unsubtle that it strain's the audience credibility in believing that this relationship could have existed for so long. Helliar's crude brand of humour works wonderfully in small doses on TV shows that offer similarly crazy tones, but here it is cringing rather than witty. A scene where he decides to introduce Jim to a fifty-year-old hooker because he thinks she looks like Alice is indicative of the lowbrow humour that he has become accustomed to.Rather ironically, what buoys the film is also its small ingredient. The casting of Peter Dinklage, a dwarf actor who was so convincing in Death at a Funeral (2007), is an inspired choice. Helliar has admitted writing the part specifically with Dinklage's voice in mind and as such the role fits accordingly. Dinklage is not only funny but he grounds his performance where the other actors cannot. He offers a sense of class and astuteness to his character and his final moments on screen are surprisingly poignant. Given how obnoxious and lowbrow his character is, Helliar thankfully only has a minor role to play himself as the boofhead friend. To his credit, he does have one single great line where he concedes that some men like Jim have an aura that lets them have any girl they want, whereas someone like him can only hope that a woman will look past all his flaws. Cowell is an unlikely romantic lead and even by the end of the picture he still does not have the level of sincerity to convince us that he belongs with Alice. His chemistry is best shared with Charlie and together their scenes bring some laughs. Megan Gale has a solid debut, playing an Italian model and she is a gorgeous inclusion.I Love You Too is a familiar and lightweight romantic comedy with occasional laughs and a sugary, predictable conclusion. The material here, particularly the characterisation, is largely insubstantial and too often does the film aim for cheap laughs rather than anything particularly smart or witty. It is at least rescued by the professionalism and charisma of Dinklage, who makes this at best a standard Australian comedy of good but unremarkable intentions.

Overall, I enjoyed it. I actually did. I liked it for reasons that others may see as stupid, but I liked it. Beware though. There are things that just make me sigh when I think back on them...After hearing about this movie getting SO hyped up on shows like Australia's The 7pm Project I expected it to be quite half-ass, because Peter Hellier is only moderately funny when live and hype is all this film could rest on later.I'll admit, it's a bit self-serving (Hellier is the moron best friend) but his character, although a little flat for an Oscar nomination (why does everything have to be about the Oscars?!)is likable in a "What is going ON with this guy?!" sort of way.It's fairly obvious that Hellier chose all his mates to be in this film (he actually states this at a couple of times) because the 'main' guy is so dull I honestly can't remember his name or the characters' name. Terrible choice of lead, that guy flat out will not have an acting career. The LEAST they could have done was shave him down.A truly tried-and-true basic script, which is sad, but the 'little person' really brought a very dry comedic value to it that the deadhead Australian persona's portrayed bounced well off.Actually, I'm changing my mind. yes, I'm stoked that this film isn't another heart wrenching family-falling-apart-drama or Aussie-battler- with-mediocre-win-in-final-credits movie like Australia is famous for, it was a pretty vague attempt at a movie that is probably best left for Hollywood to churn out.