Mark Garry

Anna Kendrick shines giving a layered nuanced "performance" because she is an actress . An actress acts ie; plays a character. Miss Kendrick has turned in over two billion dollars in box office receipts proving she can do just that ... Blake Lively plays .. Blake Lively, think the real housewives, people who become famous for harnessing the fine art of playing themselves on camera . And while it doesn't lack artifice it ISNT art ... I won't go as far as saying," one trick pony ", as the zeitgeist is so find of branding Kim Kardashian because to be clear these ponies are rare thourbred that we marvel in watching HOWEVER when we discover some inherent defect .. we can no longer watch , we feel repellent. In the case of Kim Kardashian, she went to the Paris Hilton school of fame and truly understands she serves at the grace of the king. As a result SHE is unfailingly kind she knows where her fame comes from sadly with Ms Lively.. not so much. Her husband's twitter handler I think sums it up for both of them.. "showing you the parts of us that have focus grouped the best " her acting in this film isn't acting . It's Blake being Blake ..