There is a moment early on in Just a Kiss where Dag (Ron Eldard) and his best friend, Peter (Patrick Breen), are riding through New York City in a cab. In itself, this isn’t that unusual; the fact that the background becomes animated, and becomes animated for no apparent reason, is quite unusual. I mention this specific instance here because Just a Kiss is peppered with equally mind-boggling obnoxiousness throughout its 89 minute running time.

What little plot there is in Just a Kiss focuses on Dag (pronounced like ‘dog’, which is also quite obnoxious) and his amorous meddlings with Peter’s psychotic girlfriend (Marley Shelton) and the profound effect that this meddling has on Dag’s live-in girlfriend (Kyra Sedgwick) and his other friends. Then Dag gets a second chance to go back and correct his adulterous ways. Whether you will actually make it this far in the movie though is another matter.

There are a lot of different and large problems with Just a Kiss, but most of them stem from sometimes actor and first time director Fisher Stevens’ lack of rhythm, harmony and style. His presentation of the characters is very grating and the actors’ performances make them hard to identify or empathize with. His choice to use a lighting scheme that allowed all white spaces to become blinding, distracting brilliantly white eye-sores peculiar and, as previously mentioned, the near haphazard usage of roto-scoping (animating over live footage) throughout the film is incongruous and annoying at best.

This is so incomprehensibly bad that it is almost unfathomable.

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yes, it's true:

YES, IT’S TRUE: Writer / co-star Patrick Breen guest starred on 21 Jump Street in the ‘80’s.