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As I saw the trailers for “Saving Silverman” on television a month ago, I said to myself, “here comes another ridiculous movie filled with pain, driven laughter and a bad storyline.”

Boy, was I right!

The movie focused on Darren Silverman played by the teenage boy with a special interest in apple pies, Jason Biggs. Darren is a desperate love puppy who feels he may have lost his one and only love, Sandy Perkus (Amanda Detmer), a girl from high school.

One night, his best friend, Wayne Le Fessier (Steve Zahn), tricks him into approaching a pretty brunette, Judith Snodgrass-Fessbeggler (Amanda Peet), sitting across the bar reading a book.

Yeah, right ? we all go to bars to read a good book.

Anyway, Judith abruptly dismisses him and when he returns to retrieve his beer and she claims that Darren is her boyfriend to ward off a fat guy who uses magic tricks as a pick up line.

From there the scene jumps to a six-week relationship. As I sat in the theatre I thought, “where’s the first date?” The scene then moves to the popular trailer where Judith flips over a lazy boy chair and is washed off with a beer bath.

Two scenes later, an excited Darren announces to his once inseparable friends that Judith proposed to him. Hummmm? how long was this relationship?

His best friends Wayne and J.D McNugent (Jack Black), concoct a plan to kidnap Judith and set Darren up with Sandy who happened to move back in town to join the local convent.

Don?t get me wrong, the movie is hilarious, it?s filled with scenes where Judith kicks butt with her karate chops.

But here is another role where the geek is really too weak. He rides a moped, wears a beeper so that she can keep taps on him and makes him get a butt transplant!

The movie surrounds six characters who are desperate for love when it comes to the opposite sex which made the film predictable as to who will end up with whom.

At any rate, how many times have you seen a movie where a nun curses by saying “S.O.B,” in a mediocre storyline.

Tara McDonald

Save yourself the agony of deciding what movie to see this weekend, because with this depressing weather clouding every happy thought we all could use a good laugh, and “Saving Silverman” will make you do just that.

Veteran director, Dennis Dugan, (Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore and Beverly Hills Ninja) teamed up with producer Neal H. Moritz (Juice, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Cruel Intentions) to create one of the funniest young comedies since American Pie, only without the pastries.

The inspiration for the film came from screenwriters, Hank Nelken and Greg DePaul, when they were at a friend?s engagement party a year ago and came to the realization their buddy was about to marry the wrong woman.

Many of us have close friends who are dating somebody we just can?t stand, and “Saving Silverman” is the ultimate tale of what that situation can drive people to do.

Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs of American Pie), Wayne Le Fessier (Steve Zahn of Happy Texas) and J.D. McNugent (Jack Black of High Fidelity) have been best friends since the fifth grade, though completely different in numerous ways, they all share the same connection.

Neil Diamond.

They formed their own Neil Diamond cover band called “Diamonds in the Rough” and always stuck together. But Silverman is depressed that he let the ?one and only? get away, his high school love, Sandy Perkus(Amanda Detmer of Boys and Girls).

Enter the beautiful, yet violent and manipulative psychiatrist, Judith Snodgrass-Fessbeggler, played by Amanda Peet, best known for her all too revealing role in The Whole Nine Yards. Judith uses her powers of persuasion and therapy to convince Darren that he?s in love with her and can?t live without her. Within a few weeks they are living together and engaged to be married. To make matters worse Darren breaks up the band and ditches his friends for the love of his cold-hearted, puppet master fiance.

In a desperate attempt to free Darren of the Judith?s stranglehold, J.D and Wayne kidnap her, fake her death and try to reunite him with his former love, Sandy, who is soon to take her vows as a nun after the death of her trapeze artist fiance.

However, Judith doesn?t stay down for long. Once again she uses psychiatry and also some kick-ass karate moves to escape and reclaim Darren.

But just before the “I Do?s” a hero shows up singing his hit single “Hello.” Yep you guessed it, Neil makes a cameo in his first film in 20 years, and saves the day. But don?t worry I didn?t ruin the movie for all of you. There are so many laughs and unexpected moments in this film I?m sure it will brighten up your day and give you something to smile and laugh about until the sun returns.