Um...I Disagree

Rating: Null/10 (3 September 2003)

Well, not with all of this review. Just some. I believe that it is indeed a comedy, because life is one unrelenting comedy. If it weren't, if we couldn't find the humor in even the worst situations or people, then we'd all just put guns to our heads. Also, as Carol's mother states after Carol bursts out with, "Why can't I just have a normal boyfriend?! One that doesn't go nuts on me!" "We all want that. It doesn't exist." That is precisely the point. Melvin, while he is, admittedly, flawed, as we are all in some way, gave Carol a solution to the one thing that probably weighed on her heaviest of all: a doctor to help her ailing son, to make him feel a great deal better. So no, Carol won't be rushing to the doctor every other midnight with Spencer. And Melvin probably won't ever become a sensitive poet who wears a cardigan and cries when he sees a sunset. But Carol has given him a reason to improve as much as he can. Thus, they have both helped out the other for the better, and they are no longer in it alone. So I don't believe this is a tragic movie at all, but instead one that should inspire hope.