| This contains more drama than I'd like in a movie. Throughout the first 20 minutes there's a glimmer that it could be good, but it's dashed away when you realize that the rest of the movie is going to stay this tone. In the beginning the story arc is whether the guy will propose to his girlfriend of 7 years. Later it becomes whether he chooses the girlfriend or the actress he became stuck in an elevator with. Amazingly no one has a terminal disease to force a decision so you see the guy swaying back and forth on the idea. To make matters more confusing, the actress is about to star in a movie where her character is an actress who falls in love with a regular guy, so you're not sure if she's playing him just for research material.
People who fall for this "Little Women" type of drama might care, but I didn't. Lots of unfunnies include the "Sex and the City" batch of friends who have their own love problems and become their own sad sack support group. The way everyone falls over the actress when she looks just alright pretty confuses me--she's no Ha Ji-Won, that's for sure. The guy is a pest specialist so a continuing running joke is how he finds cockroaches everywhere, including restaurants. These scenes felt more creepy than funny. Credit must be given to the director for making us care which girl is ultimately going to win his heart, but then again that's the only reason to stick around and here that's just not enough. In that respect, this is similar to "Ever After: A Cinderella Story": you already know the story but you stick around to find out which ending the director chooses, the one where the evil step-mother is banished from the kingdom or is forgiven. Or in this case, girl A or girl B. And that's all the movie gives you. |
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