I liked it at the beginning (which most people don't) and the ending is kind of undeniably sweet. The middle of the film, how it gets to where it "needs" to get is flatly written, with no laughs, and sort of paint by numbers Woody. I was hoping the film as a whole might have been a little tougher - more in the manner of
Deconstructing Harry, but as Boris is decribed at one point in the film, ...