My Boss's Daughter (2003)

Thanks for the memories!

As Good As It Gets

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I don't get why the hate over this movie. Comedy is a genre to watch without compromise, you're there to laugh, and have some fun! This one gives you just that. Terrence Stamp shines along with Ashton, they're the stars. Ashton is the kind of guy who people relies to cover their butts, he's timid, reliable, and often gets little credit for his efforts. His boss is, well, every worker's nightmare, and the contrast of them both is what makes the movie enjoyable to watch. You have a lot of practical jokes, and while some may be a little too much, you'll get some good laughs. My advise is: don't take it too serious. I wasn't expecting much from it, watched it over cable TV, and had a blast. This movie deserves better.

I don't know anything about the 'backstory' of this film. I don't know if it was plagued with production issues, recasting, re-shoots, censorship/cuts to get a PG-13 rating, etc -- and I don't have the energy to Google it to find out.All I knew about this movie was it came out when I was in high school, and I remember a friend of mine taking a girl to see it on a date. They both hated it so much they left halfway through. For some reason, that fact has remained with me for 10+ years.Now, nearly 15 years after its release, I watched the film on Netflix.Was it good? No. Was it terrible? No. Did I laugh? A little.The main issue was the film's "jumpy" storytelling. I would imagine that this project was originally an R-rated idea, but late in the game they pushed for PG-13, resulting in this jumpy-vibe. It really hurt the film.At no point did I care for Ashton Kutcher & Tara Reid's relationship, nor was their interactions funny or engaging. However, the film did feature an owl jacked-up on coke which was fairly funny.This movie is the definition of the word "passable." Worth a laugh or two, but that's about it. Expected more from Zucker.

I do like a good rom-com, but My Boss's Daughter is one of the worst I've seen I'm sorry to say. I wasn't impressed with it to start with, but it got worse as it wore on. The only redeeming quality for me was Terrence Stamp, he does a nice job with the only halfway decent lines of the film. Nothing else works in my opinion. The way it was filmed and the soundtrack were okay, but didn't do anything for me. The story was really poorly paced and predictable and structurally it is a mess. The script is unimaginative and unfunny and the jokes border more on offensive than amusing. The characters, and pretty much all of them, are bland and clichéd(not a bad thing but it is when the character and such is badly written which is the case here), while the cast excepting Stamp are poor with Ashton Kutcher faring worse, he looks bored and shows no charisma. Tara Reid looks pretty but has a bland character and does nothing with it. The rest that pop up range from barely adequate to wasted. All in all, Stamp is good, the rest is rubbish. 1/10 Bethany Cox

It was just last week when I watched "Just Married", which I didn't think was very funny, and now I've also seen "My Boss's Daughter", another romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher, which was released later the same year as the other one. I first came across the title of this one a little while earlier, since it was directed by David Zucker. I've seen a bunch of comedies which he was heavily involved in the making of, and have found several of them funny, unsurprisingly including "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" However, this 2003 comedy, directed by Zucker and written by David Dorfman, certainly misses the mark, and as a romantic comedy starring Kutcher, it's even weaker than the overall mediocre "Just Married"! Tom Stansfield works for a publishing company as a researcher. He believes he should be part of this company's creative department instead, but his boss, Jack Taylor, is so overbearing that the young researcher is too intimidated to talk to him about his ideas. Tom also has a crush on Jack's daughter, Lisa. One day at work, she approaches Tom and tells him about a party she wants to attend, but her father is making her housesit on the night this party is happening. Tom encourages her to stand up to Jack and go to this party, and she invites the young man to come over to the Taylor mansion that night. He arrives thinking she has invited him to the party, but she's not there when he arrives, and it turns out that she just wanted him to take her place as the housesitter for the night. So, Jack leaves Tom to look after the house, but as the housesitter tries to make sure that nothing goes wrong, he finds that EVERYTHING goes wrong, with people coming in uninvited, breaking Jack's rules, and trashing the place! The humour is basically mediocre at the beginning, showing the protagonist on the subway trying to talk to Lisa, with nothing too funny, and that's unfortunately the way it is for most of the film, only it gets worse as it goes along. Now, I'll admit, I couldn't help but smile several times, even laugh a little a couple times, during early scenes with the Jack Taylor character, played by Terence Stamp, including the first conversation we see between him and Tom, though I didn't find the "retard" part very amusing. Stamp does an impressive job delivering some fairly funny lines, and his performance is the only one here I can really praise. After Tom is left alone at the Taylor mansion, it isn't funny as various people come in and make a mess, which Tom REALLY doesn't want to happen, and the romance between Tom and Lisa is also pretty cheesy. This housesitting session isn't funny to begin with, but the gags get worse. There certainly are some notably lame and juvenile gags, including the urination ones, and I can't forget the Julie character. Her severe head wound is meant to be a joke, but it's not funny at all. The lamest part of the entire film is probably her leaving blood on everything the back of her head touches! Many viewers might think that this juvenile 2003 romantic comedy is horrendous all around, but I can't usually describe a film like that, and this one is no exception. However, I've made it clear that I still don't think it's very funny, and I'm certainly not puzzled at all by the film's bad reputation. As a flick directed by David Zucker, it marked a low point in his career, and apparently, this is the only movie that David Dorfman wrote, other than "Anger Management", which was made shortly before this film. While his other comedy, co-starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson, can be lame in places, it sure is funnier than this dreck! My vote for "My Boss's Daughter" is four stars out of ten, even if it looked more like five stars around the beginning. If it weren't for Terence Stamp's performance here, with the actor still showing his talent despite the film's poor quality, my vote would probably be one star lower.