Say It Isn't So (2001)

Genre: Comedy

Directed by: J.B. Rogers

Cast: Chris Klein, Heather Graham

Running time: 95 minutes

Gilly Noble is lonely man who works in animal control. He grew up in foster care, not knowing where he came from. He meets Jo, a cute hairdresser, and falls madly in love with her. Shortly after starting a relationship with her, he finds out that she might be his sister.

I wish that I could say that, from that point on, hilarity ensued, but that would be a lie. This movie is a 90 minutes mixture of unfunny humor. Over the years, I have come to accept that movies need to be judged individually, based on what there are trying to accomplish. With Say It Isn’t So, I am still not sure what the point was. If it was comedy, well, it was not funny. Were we supposed to care for these characters and their plight? I sure hope not.

Chris Klein is fine in secondary roles, as he has shown in the American Pie franchise and in a few other flicks, but, as a male lead, not so much. As for Heather Graham, she is no leading lady either. Both of their characters are unidimensional, and the actors did not do much to attempt to give them any depth. I feel bad for veterans like Sally Field and Richard Jenkins for getting mixed up in this. I guess a paycheck is a paycheck.

I will give this one a nudge higher than the minimum for the final punchline, which made me burst out laughing. Kudos to the filmmakers for that one; I should have seen it coming, but I did not. That was funny; the rest of the film was not.

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