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| I'm thinking that if I'd seen this poster I would have known better. |
Apparently, a lot of people really like this movie. There are some likeable performances and a very few winning moments, but the movie's tone is all over the place as are repeated crude attempts at humor and situations that would a) never happen in real life or b) would be creepy and obviously inappropriate. People around me laughed anyway.
The reviews I read (after the fact) were disappointingly forgiving. But "Movie Mom" nicely summed up my reaction to the movie in general and the most specifically egregious moment in the film: a 17 year old girl gives a 13 year old boy photos of herself in the nude. Really?!
"The movie is going for a wistful romanticism. For me it was more like a pervy sociopathy."
Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/moviemom/2011/07/crazy-stupid-love.html#ixzz1TqDc244m
Got popcorn? Check out one of these:
Dan in Real Life Return to Me Stranger Than Fiction The Young Victoria
Knotting Hill
PS In the beginning I thought Ryan Gosling was going to help Steve Carrell get his wife back -- nice, romantic comedy appropriate. Like Hitch. But it was more like he was helping him get back at his wife. Not nice, not romantic or good comedy.
3 comments:
I'm glad I saw Cowboys vs. Aliens. (But my 13 yr old even gave it a thumbs down for too much bad language.)
It's so hard to find anything decent these days on TV or at the movies.
thanks for the review! I love Return to Me and absolutely loved Stranger than Fiction-also thought Emma and While you were Sleeping were awesome. I'll have to see the others you've suggested, we must have the same taste in movies!
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