Besides the utter bleakness of this film, the fact that a Yale philosophy graduate has NO books displayed prominently in her hotel room is a sure sign that a

Hollywood psuedo-intellectual penned this script. If `Charlotte' were such an intellectual and was so bored by her stay in Japan, then why is she not seen

reading? And what about the internet? I just really couldn't buy into the premise and felt absolutely nothing for the shallow characters. The few laughs are at the expense of the Japanese people and I think that Bill Murray's face would crack if he changed his expression. An utter waste of time in my book.