I Think I Do

I Think I Do gets a little too cute for its own good, but the cast is perky and diverting, and Sloan has a breezy way with dialogue.

One question nagged me throughout the would-be comedy I Think I Do: Do the actors look bad because the writing is so lousy or does the writing seem lousy because the actors are so bad?

To get where it’s going, I Think I Do has to leap cliched dialogue, a bloated sense of its own relevance and some serious misdirection

Fancying itself a screwball comedy, it is neither screwy nor comedic enough to be worth the time and effort.

Likeable but less than fully accomplished.

Do I like charming romantic comedies where the players happen to be gay? I think I do. Would I like to see more? I know I would.

The dazzling dialogue one expects from screwball comedy never materializes... I Think I Do attempts a few half-hearted satirical swipes at subjects like weddings, politics, and soap' operas, but there’s little conviction here.

It hovers somewhere between Friends and Four Weddings and a Funeral, and while not as fully realized as even those, the film has a freshness that mediates the strained plotting and forced conviviality for a perfectly tolerable 93 minutes.

The ensemble cast sparkles (Arquette is particularly good), the dialogue is natural and the characters believable. We care about what's going to happen to these people. This is director Sloan's first feature and he paces it perfectly.

I Think I Do is an often-amusing romantic comedy that never rises above the level of pleasant trifle.