Julia Roberts was absolutely engaging in My Best Friend's Wedding. It seemed that the romantic comedy was her calling. This year, she takes a step backwards--make that two steps backward. One with the overrated Notting Hill and another with the completely unbelievable Runaway Bride.

For those of you sleeping under a rock, this film is the long awaited reunion from the team that brought us Pretty Woman. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, and director Garry Marshall, return with more romantic nonsense.

This time around, Roberts plays a woman with extremely cold feet, who leaves a string of would-be grooms high and dry at the altar. Richard Gere plays a journalist who writes a nasty human interest story about her for USA Today. Naturally, when he meets her, he finds himself immediately attracted to her.

Garry Marshall and crew certainly mean well. There isn't anything offensive or ugly about this film, but there isn't anything interesting or realistic about it either.

Gere and Roberts are wonderful together. They even stir up more chemistry than they did the first time around--but it doesn't seem to go anywhere. It's all by the numbers. Marshall also gets good supporting performances, particularly from the always dependable Joan Cusack.

For the most part, Runaway Bride is a forgettable movie experience, but it's light years better than Marshall's last few films--Exit To Eden and Dear God.