The Critics Speak

In Good Company

Critic: Steph Lewis
On a scale of 0 to Awesome, I rate this: Fun
Released: January 14, 2005
Director: Paul Weitz
MPAA RATING: PG-13, for some sexual content and drug references

Thank you for not making this a mushy love story. That at least gave it a bit of decency.

Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is a manager of advertising for a major magazine when bam! his company gets taken over by a big shot company that preaches synergy as the way to success. During this merger, lots of folks lose their jobs and Dan loses his office to the young Carter Duryea (Topher Grace). Carter is a young kid who invests everything in his job, which leaves him empty and looking for what life is really about. Dan & Carter go through a Office Space experience (albeit less funny). The lovely Scarlett Johanssen stars as Alex, daughter of Dan and dater of Carter. And then some other stuff happens.

It was a little slow moving, had some parts that made me chuckle a bit, and some more serious parts. I love Scarlett Johanssen's dead-pan, thoughtful acting and it was good to see Topher Grace in something besides That 70's Show. He's actually a pretty decent actor and I hope to see him in some other roles. Quaid had a permanent fold in-between his eyebrows during the entire movie that kind of drove me nuts. This movie didn't suck but I'll probably forget about it in a few weeks.