Show Just Like Heaven is a redundant romantic comedy I Stacie Peart fi The Globe GlobeS Globe'S S 'S The rhe latest Reese Witherspoon chick flick teams her up with Mark Ruffalo 13 Going on 30 and indie film favorite Jon Heder Napoleon Dynamite While the Just Like Heaven characters keeps the audience entertained the film is nothing new in the romantic comedy department Just Like Heaven takes the typical typical typical ical boy meets girl Boy and girl dont don't like each other Boy and girl end up working together to solve a mystery or problem Then boy and girl fall in love The story introduces Withers Witherspoon's po ons on's ns n's r Yo workaholic al li C charac- charac te ter Masterson moving through her typical day as a doctor in a San Francisco hospital As Elizabeth begins hour 26 of her work day she finds out her hard work has paid off She receives her dream job and will be staying at atthe atthe atthe the hospital as one of the attending physicians But after an excited phone call to her sister Elizabeth looks through her windshield to see the headlights of a large truck careening toward her car on the very rainy night Flash forward three months later Mark Ruffalo's character David Abbott enters the picture Hes He's subletting Elizabeths Elizabeth's apartment and starts to believe hes he's going crazy every time her spirit appears to chastise him on his alcohol intake laziness and inability to use t t f r a ca coaster st r in what h she still believes li ves is her apartment n n I U loW i 4 I J v vf f. f n f. f 1 J f Ii w Ac J J I I d 6 y io j 1 a tE j 1 J f 1 f t t i t. t P j Lw 1 i If J i y No W t Reese Witherspoon t t t sits next to t Heaven star co-star t Mark Ruffalo during t. t a heart warming t scene David talks to his psychiatrist friend Jack Donal Logue to find out if hes he's going crazy David begins to consider the possibility that Elizabeth is dead and needs help passing on to heaven He then seeks the guidance of a local bookstore worker and medium Jn in in the form fonn of a straight- straight ha haired J Jon Heder Traveling around to discover the reason why Elizabeth isn't in her body creates the usual moments in any romantic comedy where sparks fly Elizabeth and David begin to fall in love as is the customary plot point in any chick flick The Just Like Heaven actors worked their magic on this typical Hollywood script by turning it into an enduring romantic comedy Witherspoon Ruffalo Logue and andI I Heder brought their knowledge of comedic timing table making it a film to see Just like Heaven wont won't bring in the Academy Awards but is an above average chick flick full of well-timed well chuckles and heartwarming saga of true love can prevail even when one person is a spirit Just Like Heaven is rated PG- PG 13 I |