A waste of everybody's star wattage

OLD isn't gold as writer-director Rob Reiner achieves comedy bronze, at best, with his sweet-natured but terribly-dated senior-citizens romantic-comedy, And So It Goes. It is every bit as nonchalant as the title (named after a 1990 Billy Joel song) sounds and the lukewarm script by Mark Andrus - who also penned James L Brook's similarly-themed As Good As It Gets (1997) - could have used at least a dozen more jokes to keep things from going downhill fast.

All this despite enjoyable performances from old-timers Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton; possibly the only two reasons to catch this. The former lets loose as a grumpy old man who appears hard on the outside but is, as you've guessed it, soft as marshmallow on the inside.

In one of the film's most ludicrous scenario, this bad-a** actually helps a neighbour whom he's more used to squabbling with, deliver her baby. (It's not Douglas' fault for choosing to be in this movie; it's his agent's and Andrus'.)