Possibly if this had been produced twenty years ago it might have been deemed mindlessly amusing, but considering what's available in the way of movies and TV these days, it was just mindlessly tired and banal.
The script is just a series of lame, tired word play and pathetic situations augmented by a cast of hesitant, not particularly likable, actors struggling to portray one- dimensional characters.
I don't want to beat this to death, but if you manage to sit through it all from beginning to end, you'd have to be a masochist. I'm not so I didn't. I tried fast forwarding a few times in the hopes that the pace might improve and the actors might become less wooden, but that just compounded my disappointment.
I did watch Rob Williams' Make the Yuletide Gay a few years ago. The situations were fairly lame and ridiculous in that as well, but the actors were likable, fairly talented and able to rescue the awkward plot. That magic element was sadly missing in Shared Rooms.
The script is just a series of lame, tired word play and pathetic situations augmented by a cast of hesitant, not particularly likable, actors struggling to portray one- dimensional characters.
I don't want to beat this to death, but if you manage to sit through it all from beginning to end, you'd have to be a masochist. I'm not so I didn't. I tried fast forwarding a few times in the hopes that the pace might improve and the actors might become less wooden, but that just compounded my disappointment.
I did watch Rob Williams' Make the Yuletide Gay a few years ago. The situations were fairly lame and ridiculous in that as well, but the actors were likable, fairly talented and able to rescue the awkward plot. That magic element was sadly missing in Shared Rooms.