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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 437197" data-attributes="member: 23">The Baker (2007)

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A natural film to follow Plots With A View, since it&#039;s another broad romantic comedy set in a Welsh village inhabited by eccentrics.Some faces were kind of familiar, but there was only one I could place by name as I watched (&quot;Ooh -&nbsp; is that Annette Badland?&quot; It was). One of&nbsp; the most familiar-looking of these turned out to be the bloke from The Flying Pickets, looking almost the same as I remember him looking when they sang Only You. Despite the love story angle and the earnest tagline &quot;everyone deserves a second chance&quot;, the film can only be enjoyed by accepting that it&#039;s really quite a surface film. It doesn&#039;t have a great deal of heart, and one doesn&#039;t really care about the characters. The quirk levels are quite amped up, with scenarios such as exploding sheep, and a modest dash of gross-out humour here and there. There&#039;s one silly moment that sold the film to me: the exploding wife. As I realised the conclusion everyone was going to reach, I found myself becoming&nbsp; invested for a while in the anticipation. For a film with this one&#039;s themes, it&#039;s disappointing there was no real edge. I was never in doubt that the ending would be anything other than daft and happy. With this accepted it&#039;s an enjoyable enough ride, even though I won&#039;t remember it by this time next week.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 437197, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Baker[/SIZE][/B] (2007) [IMG width="635px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2Ff9dG5EeUyJfYvMDHuSNsYkN7bcD.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=70ad16671c2bed0c67bb91532c7ee83d205573fae4cb33efe5a4bf13c38a704f[/IMG] [/CENTER] A natural film to follow [I]Plots With A View,[/I] since it's another broad romantic comedy set in a Welsh village inhabited by eccentrics. Some faces were kind of familiar, but there was only one I could place by name as I watched ("Ooh - is that Annette Badland?" It was). One of the most familiar-looking of these turned out to be the bloke from The Flying Pickets, looking almost the same as I remember him looking when they sang [I]Only You.[/I] Despite the love story angle and the earnest tagline "everyone deserves a second chance", the film can only be enjoyed by accepting that it's really quite a surface film. It doesn't have a great deal of heart, and one doesn't really care about the characters. The quirk levels are quite amped up, with scenarios such as exploding sheep, and a modest dash of gross-out humour here and there. There's one silly moment that sold the film to me: the exploding wife. As I realised the conclusion everyone was going to reach, I found myself becoming invested for a while in the anticipation. For a film with this one's themes, it's disappointing there was no real edge. I was never in doubt that the ending would be anything other than daft and happy. With this accepted it's an enjoyable enough ride, even though I won't remember it by this time next week. [/QUOTE]

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