Heart warming!

Rating: 7/10 (24 September 2009)

The Proposal is not the most original movie of the year, and it's not the most unpredictable one, either. Truth be told, it's the same old story, repeated over and over again, but -again- truth be told, it's a very warm comedy. The movie starts much like The Devil Wears Prada, but as the movie progresses, the similarities vanish, and it begins to develop as While You Were Sleeping of 2009. It's the same story: two people who are so wrong for each other, the warm family you want to marry into and you wish it was your own; finally, the confession and the happy end. For some reason, it's not corny or cheesy at all; the great performances of Reynolds, Bullock and White make it seem believable and welcoming. The only problem one may have with the movie is its inconsistency; the movie starts glamorously, just to get silly, then plain stupid, then it picks up again. You have to have a lot of faith and courage to keep up and actually want to watch it till the end. It's semi-worth it: the ending is nothing of an original, but it is what you wanted to see. The movie -in its own charming manner- borderlines on kitsch and romantic, predictable and desired, just to land in the category of the romantic comedy of the year, a good, old-fashioned love story that does not need to be original or surprising, but it does make you fell warm and fuzzy inside.