I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I was as big a fan of Napoleon Dynamite as anyone and I was very keen (people don’t use that word enough) on seeing Jon Heder do more stuff from there. Well… he did more stuff, and he sucked in all of it. Take your pick of poison:
– Just Like Heaven
– The Benchwarmers
– School for Scoundrels
– Mama’s Boy
– Blades of Glory (I liked this movie, but Heder was dead weight and a half trained monkey could play comedy opposite Will Ferrell)
This sucks because I WANT to like Heder, but so far he’s proved over and over and over again that’s he’s a one trick pony that just can’t carry a movie.
Now comes word that Jon Heder and Josh Duhamel (Who I think has a solid future as a leading man, but let’s be honest, he wasn’t exactly stellar in Transformers) are hooking up with the new romantic Comedy “When In Rome” featuring Kristen Bell, The good folks over at Yahoo News give us this:
Bell (“Veronica Mars”) plays a love-starved New York curator who steals magical coins from the Trevi Fountain in Rome but soon finds herself in a bizarre situation when she is pursued back to New York by a band of aggressive suitors whose coins she took. Duhamel (NBC’s “Las Vegas”) is the romantic lead. Heder (“Napoleon Dynamite”) will play a street magician and one of Bell’s suitors. Shepard (“The Comebacks”) will play an aspiring model. Huston, coming off a stint on NBC’s “Medium,” will play Bell’s boss, the curator of the Guggenheim.
Bell seems to be the flavor of the month right now… and for good reason. She’s hot, she’s adorable, and she seems to have some acting chops to go along with it (she’s pretty damn good in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”). The premise to the film sounds like it might have potential… I’m just worried about the whole Heder factor.
