Contains my least favorite cliché

Rating: 6/10 (15 April 2007)

OK, let's get the basic review out of the way: a pretty good movie, not great, not worthy of all the hype or awards, but not bad. I just want to focus on one point: the use of my least favorite cliché in all of moviedom.
It's about the girlfriend, Adrian. The ugly duckling "loser" woman who nobody wants (but Rocky). Except that, she's actually a cute woman. How is she unattractive? The dumbest, most over-used cliché ever: she wears an absolutely hideous pair of glasses. Then, at just the right moment, the hero makes her take them off, and, voilà! She's instantly nice looking! What makes it particularly egregiously dumb in this movie is, after that point, SHE NEVER WEARS THE GLASSES AGAIN. Apparently, her vision problems magically disappear or something. Or her eyes were always 20/20, but she just liked wearing hideous glasses? (and don't tell me she got contacts, in that day and age, in that socio-economic class, with that obnoxious brother). It's just insulting to our intelligence.