Apparently this was originally meant as a Hugh Grant vehicle – ::shudder:: – I can’t imagine even the Briget Jones-era ‘bad boy’ Grant pulling off the underwear selection scene. Or any of the rest of it. Paul Bettany is the absolutely only thing worth watching in this movie. Why isn’t he in more films, really? Where was I? Oh yes. I imagine that if I actually liked tennis I’d’ve hated this movie, as it was… meh.

I would have to guess that the director of “Wimbledon” has never been to Wimbledon, has never watched Wimbledon on TV and has, in fact, never watched a tennis match before. Everything about the game play and the tournament rang false (a semi-final on a small, outside court???) and the shots were just bizarrely set up. Kirsten Dunst was horribly miscast, but Paul Bettany was light and refreshing—and more importantly, believable as a tennis player.