Crazy, Stupid Stupid... Stupid, Love

Rating: 5/10 (22 November 2011)

DVD rentals' friends might have noticed this new release. Although I'm not a romance flick type of guy - my opinion is that it's all downhill from the release of Before Sunrise in the genre- I wanted to watch this film. Specifically, after watching its trailer, I believed that it would make fun of the other recent chick flicks. Oh boy I was wrong, the only thing that mocks is itself. For example, a lot of similes are being used in it, one of which was about how Emma Stone's character's life resembles that of a PG-13 movie. This is a PG-13 movie so every sequence is done in that moderate way. You'll get bullcrap like the '' soul mates '' theory, preteens talking about love (a feature probably adopted by another shitty movie '' Love Actually '') and how not being steady is lowlife. Basically it's a Disney like movie with a PG-13 rating.
But let's analyze its plot... There is this married couple, Steve Carell and Julianne Moore, who seems to be going through a dull time. Hence, Moore wants a divorce. Carell then stumbles upon Ryan Gosling, a player, who volunteers on teaching Carell the ways he rolls with girls. So far so good, then comes the fairy tale part that'll make teen girls moist and nostalgic. It turns out that no character in the movie is getting what they really need, which apparently is '' love '' as described in the film. Therefore, characters start behaving irrationally, '' crazy '' which is unrealistic, unreasonable and plain '' stupid ''.
Its humor blows, with heavy overuse of the trending slang phrase '' Seriously? '' and other repetitive jokes. At some point, Twilight is being mentioned as a bad movie but comparing it to this it's way better. For the followers that have watched this, I want to share that I felt pity for Kevin Bacon's character. In addition, I enjoyed its soundtrack and Ryan Gosling's pugnacious moments. There is a twist in the end, that's played really bad by the screenwriters and succeeds in making you even more mad with the film. If you got nothing else to do and feel like raging in front of your TV set, this movie is for you. Let me just inform you that it gets worse as time goes by.
It seriously owns in the pointless meter, along with other applesauce by scoring a five out of five.
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