Well, the movie night was a hoot! We voted against throwing, but for booing and hissing. But two minutes into the movie, all the lights went out. A power failure in my whole neiborhood. We decide to wait ten minutes, then go to my friend's house. But then we discovered that without power, we couldn't get the DVD out of the TV.
We didn't know what to do. So we kinda-sorta sat around in the dark, having a good time, hoping the power would go back on (we had called and reported it to a computer). Fortunately, after about an hour, it did.
That hour in the dark was more fun than the movie. The actors weren't quite as bad as I'd feared, but the movie never came together. The actors voices were low and the sound affects high, so we had to choose between not hearing what was said or hearing the actors but being blasted out of our seats. Heigl and Reynolds tried hard, but couldn't pull it off. Morelli and Ranger were both ugly, and looked alike: they could have made ONE of them cute! Lula was good, but not brassy enough, and had only a bit part.
But we still had a good time. The sad part is, the movie didn't do well, so there probably won't be a sequal. Done right, the books could have been blockbuster movies.