Started great, ended in a disgusting cliché

Rating: 7/10 (27 September 2009)

At first I thought it could be possible that the movie was really as good as the hype and the marketing made it out to be. I mean, it is a romantic comedy, so could it really show chemistry between the two protagonists, really be funny and not stick to the stupid, idiotic formulas that rule this genre?
The start showed all that promise and then it started to go awry. Suddenly the self-empowered New York book editor remembers her passion for hip-hop music, starts dancing ridiculously, accepts anything is thrown at her by the incredibly rude Alaskan family that couldn't have been more annoying to either boy or girl. And in the end, this leads to love. Really?!
So, from something relatively good it became average by completely trashing the ending. It is still reasonably good for the genre, but hell... how hard is it to make a real script for once?