Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis play the couple under scrutiny, Katie and Ben Jordan. A comfortable L.A. couple with two kids, a nice home and a handful of the usual comic-sidekick best friends, this once happy couple does nothing but bicker bicker bicker. She complains that she’s the “designated driver” of the relationship. He wonders where the wacky girl he fell in love with has gone. Both actors are capable of giving us complex, flesh-and-blood characters, but you won’t find them here. What we see are two movie stars playing a generic couple in a movie so bland and un-lived in you want to pour Tabasco all over the screen. Will they get back together? One guess. Do we care? Not a bit. Nothing is at stake here except Reiner’s rapidly dwindling reputation as an observer of (so-called) life.
