This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I saw this a few times, and never really worked out why they stopped production. It was witty to a degree for all people, and was the easy watching that makes many another programme successful.Personally I loved it! The cast were almost perfect for the roles, and Bradley Cooper was great. I hadn't seen much of him before this show and haven't seen an awful lot of him since, but he seemed very natural in this position.Why did Fox pull the show? I'd like to know if anyone has any idea. I have sent them a letter asking if there is any chance of it appearing again and never got a reply.

Is Fox run by monkeys with no sense of humor? Because that would explain why they canceled such a brilliantly funny series. I never got to see this on TV, instead I shelled out $60 for the DVD, money well spent as it turns out. The series follows the adventures of Jack Bourdain as he tries to make a name for himself again at Nolita. The series is filled with great episodes including "Rabbit Test" where instead of getting pre-killed rabbits Nolita receives a load of live ones, and someone has to kill 'em, "The Robbery" Showing Nolita trying to recover after a armed robbery decimates their business and "Let's Do Brunch" where the staff are forced to do brunch, a meal that's frequented by infants and old people. The whole cast is fantastically funny, but my personal favorite is Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris from Buffy) as Seth the baker, but the entire cast deliver stand out performances that should still be going to this day. When you get a chance, write an angry letter to fox and tell them to give this show another go.

"Kitchen Confidential" has to be one of the funniest series I have seen in a long time. Very well-acted and each character is fantastic. The chemistry between all the characters is magic...Another plus was that it didn't have that ridiculously annoying laugh-track, which I hate (asif we are too stupid to know when we should laugh!!) I cannot believe that this was pulled of after airing 4 episodes - I would've thought that it could easily have material for that many seasons! Having taken the complete series from the DVD store (which was highly recommended btw), I started watching and then saw all the episodes straight through! Really good.

I watched Kitchen Confidential and How I Met Your Mother side by side (taping one, watching the other), and I do not understand how How I Met Your Mother can be considered the better of the two unless some serious finagling is happening in the background. Really too bad, since it's actually a funny sitcom and happening in a kitchen - something that rarely happens and something I did not expect at all. I almost forgot that this was based on the real Anthony Bourdain - the main actor is very sexy and very cute. The storyline about the famous chef who wants to eat himself to death (played by John Laroquette) was the best one so far. Too bad major networks don't have the time anymore to give a rookie sitcom some time to develop an audience.