7.6??? Give me a break! This movie is blatant ripoff of several films! Don't even get me started on the ridiculous plot :-)

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2011)

Great cast, but so many things borrowed from other films. Steve Carrell might as well be the 40-year old Virgin again, because he's pretty much just reprised his old role, only instead of having 2 friends tutoring him about how to pick up women - he has Ryan Gosling. Speaking of whom, either he is wasted on his role here, or the other way round. Either way it doesn't work. Good looking guy, but about as funny as a wall.
Another borrowed item from the past - the Dirty Dancing lift-the-girl- into-the-air dance scene. The fact that it's blatantly obvious that this scene was completely unnecessary for the movie, it becomes even more obvious that it was only stuck in to hopefully get some of the magic from that iconic scene to somehow rub off into this movie. Desperate attempt, and very unoriginal.
The scene where Ryan Gosling is standing naked in front of Steve Carrell in the gym. I urge you to watch Simon Pegg's "Run Fat Boy Run"from a few years ago. In it you will see the IDENTICAL scene between Simon Pegg and Hank Azaria. Daylight robbery, once again.
The plot itself is preposterous. Everything from how they built up Ryan Gosling to be this single, lothario, pick-up artist who somehow makes Steve Carrell his best friend - just because he saw him a few nights in a bar whinging about his cheating wife. And the climax where they all realise what's actually going on, is actually the most ridiculous scene of all. It's almost as if the writer and director thought of that scene first, and then thought "Okay, now let's go backwards and write a story from that ". It's the equivalent of someone thinking of the punchline first, and then coming up with the joke. Never works.
2 hrs of my life wasted. Well, 1 hr and 40 mins anyway. I read the news for the last 20 mins and kept the film running as background noise. 2 stars because it did have the rare funny moment.
p.s. Did I mention that Marisa Tomei is wasted in this movie?