My Boss's Daughter Review
by Susan Granger (ssg722 AT aol DOT com)August 25th, 2003
Susan Granger's review of "My Boss's Daughter" (Miramax Films)
If you're left with lemons, make lemonade. And if you have a "hot gossip" young star, release his wretched movie while he's wallowing in his 15 minutes of fame. That had to be the reasoning behind Miramax's marketing plan for this dud that's sat on the shelf for a couple of years.
Ashton Kutcher is Demi Moore's newest boy-toy, so that's bound to create curiosity, if not actual interest. Ashton plays Tom Stansfield, an ambitious researcher at a Chicago publishing house. His boss (Terence Stamp) is a mean megalomaniac with a penchant for firing employees so - to curry favor with his daughter Lisa (Tara Reid) - Tom inadvertently finds himself house-sitting with their depressed owl named O.J. - as in O.J. Simpson - in their spotless, antique-filled mansion. His orders are: no shoes, no guests and no damage - or no job. Predictably, uninvited guests arrive to trash the place - like Lisa's drug-dealing brother Red (Andy Richter) and a psychopathic killer (Michael Madsen) who's after him. Plus there's a disgruntled former secretary (Molly Shannon) and her friends (Tyler Labine, David Koechner and Carmen Electra in a wet T-shirt). Much of this frantic idiocy is tasteless and nothing, even the slapstick, makes much sense.
Director David Zucker ("Airplane," "Naked Gun") and writer David Dorfman ("Anger Management") flounder with this forced fluff. It's somewhat telling that Ashton and Tara have zero on-screen chemistry, even though - according to the tabloids - they were supposedly embroiled in an off-screen romance at the time of filming. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "My Boss's Daughter" is a witless 1, lasting an agonizing 85 minutes. Certainly there was a reason this stupidity was never screened in advance for critics. Ashton, you've been "Punk'd."
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