what did i expect?

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2004)

First of all, I would have been a fool to expect anything more than crap from this movie, but I watched it anyway...because that's what good boyfriends do. But unlike some of the romance comedy tripe I've been exposed to, this one failed at every possible opportunity to redeem itself from total crapdom.
First of all, how am I supposed to believe that Kate Hudson's character is really interested in political journalism AND enviromental issues AND this AND that AND the other stuff she claims to want to write about in the movie? Here's a bright, young journalist who has already made the worst career move in her lifetime by joining the staff of a dippy women's magazine, whose subject matter doesn't interest her in the least. Ooops. THEN, she comes up with this great idea to do research on relationships by doing "all the classic things that girls do wrong." Well, I've never been in a relationship where the woman was even close to being as psycho as Kate Hudson acts throughout the film...but maybe that's because I'm still young. Apparently "all the classic things" includes buying an ugly dog, giving her boyfriend's member a female name (?!) and otherwise being a complete socio- Nazi. Classic, dude. The film culminates in a god-awful karaoke battle (which is actually one of the good parts), but dang, it wouldn't be a date movie if the couple didn't have a fight, go home, get all sad, suddenly decide they love each other and then start making out while some crappy song swells (to make certain that the audience can identify this scene as emotionally important, you see). My friends, this is why divorces happen.