Definitely lives up to the middle part of it's title

Rating: 2/10 (2 January 2015)

I must admit, I am not the biggest fan nor am I a huge viewer of romantic comedies but I must say this movie fell below my expectations as I wanted more but ultimately got less than what I really wanted and that was a bit of a laugh. I didn't really laugh, only a light giggle once or twice. It says that this movie is a comedy/romance and drama and it fails in at least two of the genre's as a minimum, I'll let you guess which ones. Steve Carell stars as a middle aged man whose wife, Emily (Julianne Moore) asks him for a divorce. He then goes to a bar and complains about his problems, enter Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling), a ladies man who acts as a fixer of sorts. The three main actors try their best not to overact but end up just doing it a little bit and I would normally say if an actor is underused, Emma Stone is as the film would have benefited from just a little bit more of her but in this case, Kevin Bacon and Marisa Tomei were a waste of space as the film could have done without them, Bacon looked way out of place and Tomei hammed it up just a bit too much for my liking. And let's not even get started on the plot which seemed so contrived. In short, it was another movie to join the list of many overrated films over the years that were talked about because of their so called "big name stars".