Pretty much a time-passer by Steve Martin's standards, this is partly Steve's equivalent of a Woody Allen film about Manhattan, and partly a reflection of his romance with then real-life wife Victoria Tennant. There's a spot of parrot-juggling and skating in the art gallery but not quite as many zany moments as you'd expect in this sort of Martin movie. He's a TV weatherman bored with his romance with LA hipster Marilu Henner. He goes off on a wild weekend with bounding shop assistant Sarah Jessica Parker (from TV's Sex and the City) , in spite of the fact that he's fallen wildly for seemingly unobtainable Tennant as an unlikely London Times newspaper correspondent. The path of true love is helped by a Los Angeles freeway sign, but this touch of lunacy isn't enough to save the film from needing the big finish it doesn't get. Guest shots from Rick Moranis, Chevy Chase and Patrick Stewart (from the X-Men and Star Trek films) are more or less gratuitous and the funny moments get fewer as the film goes on.

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