"No Reservations" **1/2 (out of four): The ingredients of a delicious romantic comedy are left slightly undercooked in this remake of 2001's "Mostly Martha".

I have to apologize in advance for the rampant culinary wordplay which is sure to permeate this review. But when you’re dealing with a film that pushes the food-as-love metaphor as much as “No Reservations” – a slightly undercooked (see?) remake of 2001’s German feature “Mostly Martha” - you really have no other choice. Like its source material, “Reservations” tells the story of a high-end chef (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who, after being saddled with her newly-orphaned niece, finds love with a shaggy-haired, unconventional sous-chef (Aaron Eckhart).

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