All's Faire for each other: Film Review

NY - An astonishingly bad comedy that hardly merits booking below-tier cable, Scott Marshall's All's Faire for each other sneaks into theaters a few years after production, most probably expecting getting a couple of quick dollars from star Christina Ricci's Pan Am exposure. One imagines Ricci's agents are praying because of its quick disappearance. Their hopes is going to be clarified. STORY: 'Pan Am' Star Christina Ricci Describes Why She Boarded the ABC Series We meet Ricci's Kate in the interview that finishes when, strangely, she strips from her business suit and changes right into a flowered dress. It appears she's always imagined of working in a Renaissance Faire, and also the capitalist concentration of a Wall Street interview has finally pressed her toward her future. In the Faire she meets Will (Owen Benjamin), a university jock whose British Lit professor (Cedric the Performer) has agreed to provide him credit for any class he never attended if he'll undergo a summer time of mock-peasantry. Audiences who discover that premise difficult to swallow should mind for that exit before Will meets his tormentor, Rank (a frantically unfunny Chris Wylde), and Rank's three sidekicks -- a French dwarf, a cartoonish Chinaman along with a Mexican oaf named Jamón. PHOTOS: ABC's Year Television Shows: 'Pan Am,' 'Charlie's Angels' and much more In the opening credits -- an animated sequence so crude a junior-high art student could be embarrassed with it -- to some climax by which Kate's dog is taken hostage having a crossbow, there's no ounce of mirth within this parade of ghastly accents, container-eared romantic montages and cent-store knavery. A director whose last film was the Jessica Simpson explosive device Blonde Ambition might worry that this can be a career-killer. Opens: October 28 (MGM, Regal Entertainment exclusive) Production companies: Patriot Pictures, Duke of You are able to Pictures, That's Hollywood Cast: Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Matthew Lillard, Ann-Margret, Chris Wylde, Nadine Velazquez, Cedric the Performer Director: Scott Marshall Screenwriters: Scott Marshall, Jeffrey Ray Wine Producers: Michael Mendelsohn, Ron Singer, Scott Reed Executive producers: Randy Mendelsohn, Mark Lindsay Director of photography: Mark Irwin Production designer: John Collins Music: Shaun Cardoni, Julian Jackson Costume designer: Gary Johnson Editors: Josh Muscatine, Tara Timpone Ranked PG-13, 107 minutes Ann-Margaret Christina Ricci