Roger Ebert's review
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- Ebert was not impressed: two stars, saying Jennifer Garner is a charmer but the victim of a charmless treatment.
- Ebert could not buy the magazine office, professionals not noticing a 13-year-old mind, Jenna's spectacularly bad redesign being accepted, and emotional and sexual puzzles; he said it should have been a musical. His points are called decent.
- He liked Garner, which is credited for getting two stars out of him.
- Wesley Morris, then at the Boston Globe, called it a contagious but dopey first star vehicle for TV's Jennifer Garner, tailor-made for women who lust for dream houses, dream jobs and dream hubbies; a host guesses that if asked now he would call it one of his favorites of the last 25 years.
- Dopey can still be fun; Ebert's logic points are correct but part of the genre, and the office looks like the Working Girl set.