This film tries awfully hard to spook romance movies of every type. It wants to spoof the romantic comedy, the tragedy, HBO soft-core porn and in some ways a horror film of female obsession. However, it fails in every respect seeming to be more like a junior high imitation of that nascent writers believe adult relationships are like.This movie might have been humorous, if the gags weren't taken to such obscene levels of mockery. While the cast seems absolutely oblivious to the huge mistake of a career move.Worst of all, the ending tries to reveal something true to relationships: that sex is unforgivable whereas making out isn't all that bad when it comes to cheating. However, it is impossible to take anything in this movie seriously.

My friend and I found a DVD of this movie in the rental area in a hotel we were staying in, and, not seeing much else other than the fact that Taye Diggs was in it, proceeded to rent it.The whole way through we were making comments along the lines of "Whoa, this is really trippy..." But, as we realized after we finished the movie, that's okay. Sometimes a cinematic drug trip is exactly what you're looking for.Idina Menzel's cameo performance was freaking brilliant, as always. And the rest of the cast, esp. Taye, Marley Shelton and Marisa Tomei, carried this slightly whacked out movie well. Overall it was insane but enjoyable, although definitely not for everyone.

JUST A KISS is so original (I can't compare it closely to ANYthing else I've seen), so laugh-out-loud funny, so well acted, written and directed, that to pass it up would be a sin and a loss for any real movie-lover. It's a kind of filmed comic essay on fidelity in an age of infidelity--what you gain and what you lose. But if that sounds preachy, the movie is anything but. Yes, it uses some kind of morphing into an animated look periodically, which is evidently distracting to some, but I felt it just added to the many pleasures of the film. My theory is that these moments are the heightened--read sexual, violent, transitional times--that need to be singled out in some way, but maybe that isn't what the talented director Fisher Stevens had in mind. The cast--a wonderful mix of first-rate performers, all of whom are seen to good advantage--is exemplary. And the writing is, too. This is such a special movie: thank god for the Sundance Channel or we might never have discovered it. Bravo to everyone concerned!

I enjoyed this film. As one of the other reviewers mentioned,I didn't like it at first. However, there is definitely some clever writing ("he made love like an alchemist"). The film is about a turn of events set into motion by Dag, sleeping with his best friend's girl. I found it to be a bit profound in terms of what people will do to get what they want, what people put up with in relationships (to avoid failure) and of course the true meaning of love. Go see it for sure. T