Not at all as bad as the critics say

Rating: 8/10 (17 June 2012)

I was lucky not to listen to the mostly negative reviews on rottentomatoes otherwise I would have missed a truly funny and also charming movie with something in it for everybody, even children. The reason why this is not the typical dumb ass comedy is because it is an original screwball comedy and to call it predictable is nonsense since the predictability is the essence of the genre. We do not want to know if but how. Therefore we need real characters with a life and not just situation based punch lines. This little* film provides both of it. The dialogues were mostly believable, they sometimes sounded even a little improvised between Sandler and Aniston. All in all a good entertainment with nothing to be ashamed of and even worth watching more than once.
*In fact, it is not as little as it should be. It is an awful tendency to blow up movies to two hours (why do they do this?). Often, the story does not deliver enough for that length so they come up with lot of side stuff that sometimes has nothing to do with the plot at all and has the quality of filler material. I would have deleted at least 30 Minutes of this movie and then it could have been even better.