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I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With Review: Although it has been released theatrically, Jeff Garlin's I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With really belongs in a small-screen setting. Not that it's a bad movie -- it's a clever, sometimes very effective comedy, with some excruciatingly funny scenes (involving not only star-writer-director Jeff Garlin, but also David Pasquesi, Dan Castellaneta, and Joey Slotnick); and some of what it has to say about romance and ambition is painfully valid, in terms of the contradictions people bring to both aspects of their lives. Additionally, the central plot premise, of the protagonist's fixation on the Paddy Chayefsky television play Marty, turns into both a sincere homage to that work and the era that spawned it, as well as a vehicle for a vicious attack on the entertainment industry's modern-day fixations on youth and glamour. But there's not enough energy to the narrative to maintain the film's momentum across its length, and the story arc, such as it is, is somewhat diffuse and difficult to perceive. At times, it feels as though one is watching a series of loosely related vignettes rather than a fully integrated film, and while I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With is often very effective, it might better have been programmed into a special time slot on Comedy Central. Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

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