No movie's perfect but I was pleasantly surprised.

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2019)

I never had high expectations for this movie. I want to believe a movie above a certain age can hold up but I guess I was a bit sour grapes about it because people kept heaping praise on it.
There's an intelligence required to write goofy comedy and although a lot of this could be considered low brow, the impeccable sense of timing and efficiency in which the jokes are served and delivered is nothing short of admirable. A real comedy, not a veiled dramedy which is what Judd Apatow does. We get a cool plot that keeps as viewing and its snapshot of gender relations makes the whole thing seem enduringly relevant (but it was never meant to be a movie with a message; that's what's so awesome).
The acting talent is amazing. Only Monroe maybe sort of falls short (yeah, I know). I get the impression she is a maestro at being the kind of character she's playing in real life; that sort of animated mannequin that men (including me admittedly) want to date so a lot of the time she is so on the money. But when it's time for her to do one of the more comedy orientated monologues the delivery seems to fall a bit flat. I think it might seem this way thanks to being surrounded by tons of better actors but she is certainly not bad and the script shines through.
Frequently kind of eye-rollingly lame (like when they desperately use music to convey that Monroe is somehow more attractive than the other women present) but that does not change the majesty with which so much comedy, both physical and verbal, is flawlessly choreographed and realized (the train carriage scene springs to mind).