[.ca] Lost & Found (ISBN 0790742888)

From Amazon.com:
Boy meets girl, boy falls in love. Girl loses dog, boy finds dog, decides to be a hero. But wait--the girl has an oily Euro ex-boyfriend, and the dog swallows the boy's best friend's wedding ring and can't be returned to the girl until the ring is, uh, found. Fans of There's Something About Mary should like this light-as-a-feather comedy, since it heists plot devices directly from that film. Think about it: there's two guys competing for the same girl, a scruffy-but-lovable terrier, and even a clutch of oversexed old ladies. David Spade, Saturday Night Live alum, is marginally less grating and more likable in this slight romantic comedy. Unfortunately this film is also littered with some pretty bad gags (beware of Spade's lengthy Neil Diamond impersonation), poo-poo jokes, and a character who's a direct stand-in for the late Chris Farley. Sophie Marceau, gorgeous as she is, apparently speaks her lines in phonetic English for all the feeling she puts into them. Still, this is suitable for stashing your brain under the couch for an evening with the VCR. --Jerry Renshaw

Only for David Spade's Biggest Fans:
David Spade plays the typical David Spade character here: a smarmy, semi-witty wise guy who is deeply self-involved and frequently unscrupulous. Sophie Marceau plays a cellist with a little dog. Guess who takes her dog so that he can "find" it and earn her gratitude? Guess whether anything will go wrong with the old-hat plan? Guess who eventually gets on Mlle Marceau's good side? So much for the "plot." As a comedy, this is pretty tired stuff. Sadly, to prep the ever-adorable Sophie Marceau for her part as a cello virtuoso, the director seems to have had her coached in bowing and fingering for about five minutes. ... Of course, we usually don't go to comedies or heroic adventure films for the realistic musicianship of the actors--but the sloppiness of this element in THIS film is just one more insult to the audience. After all, duh, the e-a Marceau is supposedly playing a professional cellist.

Semi--Funny, unrealistic, and stupidly predictible.:
David Spade was funny in Tommy Boy and even funnier in Black Sheep, but without Chris Farley at his site he fails in this. The movie is about a loser who falls inlove with his new neighbor and kidnaps her dog to get her attention. The sick and unrealistic thing is that they actually get closer from this, you can see jokes coming from a mile away in this lame unrealastic plotHow can any say this is a romantic comedy? Whats romantic about stealing a womens puppy? And another thing, why don't the two actors playing the french people speak french in the scenes where they are alone? I never saw the end of this but I already knew what was gonna hap... he gets the girl. David Spade and Artie Lange have some real funny parts, but they can't save this miserably script (which Spade co-wrote) This just missed getting pne star because its so terrible its almost funny, but almost is the key word.

Not as bad as it looks:
I was unsure about this movie. It looked pretty stupid. After a while I started to like it. It was funny (some parts were disgusting). Spade is charming, as charming as he can be. It mixes humor with a loving feeling, much like other Spade movies (Joe Dirt). The best part was that Norm McDonald was nowhere to be seen.

Lost Indeed: Look, Sophie's Fans ! Strictly for Spade Fans:
This is written with a point of view from outside of USA, I tell you, but it is hard to "sell" or "pitch" the name of David Spade, coming from TV Saturday Night Live. That is partly because of his unique persona, and partly because the studios of Hollywood still don't know how to deal with him in bigger projects like feature films. "Lost and Found" is based on an idea directly coming from "There's Something About Mary". A guy Dylan (Spade) wants to get attention of a next-door neighbor girl Lila (Marceau), so he desperately does what Ben Stiller and other silly boys did in "Mary": kidnapping her pet dog!! However, the dog has some nasty habit of eating anything, and of course, complication follows with her former love following her from Europe. Spade's acting (or, Spadism, as you might say) is here and there, and with his dead-pan quips he makes us sometimes laugh, so for his fans, the film is a perfect gift. However, as I said before, the film needs 90 minutes to keep us interested, the story, or characters. all of which lack sadly here. The greatest demerit is, the protagonist doesn't seem to deserve the love of the girl, played by none other than Marceau. You may be surprised to hear this, but outside USA, it is presumed, her name is much, much popular than Spade's, and that state makes a big trouble for any of HER fans, who would be put off by Spade's too off-beat comic style. As one of the old ladies say in this film, Spade's charms take some time to reach the audience. If you are already fan of him, it doesn't matter whatever he does -- steal a dog, anything -- but he needs more than that mannerism he usually shows. Ben Stiller can carry the whole pictute with his troubled facial expressions, for it is simply, undeniably funny by itself. But as for Spade ... probably that is why many of SNL talents find hard time to translate their popularity to a bigger and wider media on the big screen. In short, he had to surprise us, showing more than impersonation of Neil Diamond (remember Eddie Murphy's street-smart attitude in "48hrs"). As it is, with this routine gags and banal story, it is unlikely for the film to convert moviegoers to Spade's advocates. For European fans, Sophie Marceau is as gorgeous as ever, but as in the 007 film or "Braveheart" she looks quite "fish out of water." And that is not purely coming from her acting, but it looks as if she feels really uncomfortable. Looks for some other French-made pieces if you want Marceau at her best. Even her latest (and dreadful) mummy picture made in France (I don't name it for you) looks better than this one.

Great comedy, with a good heart, and that David Spade touch!:
This movie is a real keeper, folks. I know it didn't do too well in theaters, but GIVE IT A CHANCE! Lost & Found is the story of a restaurant owner (spade) named Dylan Ramsey, who is doing okay with his cafe, but not so well in the ladies department. He goes through one meaningless relationship after another, until he meets Lila, his new, cello playing neighbor who moves from France with her dog, Jack. Dylan fails to get any sort of attention from this girl until he decides to kidnap her dog, in order to spend time with and get to know her. Humor ensues, romance ensues. All-in-all, a great, fun romantic comedy that i recommend to anyone.