Isn't worth watching

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2009)

I've seen some good comedies in the last months; Tropic thunder, Zack and Miri Make A Porno, Role Models,and I got to say that it seemed that comedies were getting a bit more sophisticated. Today I watched The Proposal and by watching this film you can seen everything that's wrong with most comedies.This little comedy is just so boring,predictable,unoriginal and more importantly, not funny. I mean,I only laughed three or four times during the entire movie (and only a little) which is pretty bad when you're watching a comedy.I would go even further as to say that the movie is better in its few dramatic moments then in the "supposedly" funny scenes.I'm not saying this is the worst film ever made or even a bad film, but it is so mediocre and,well; crappy in lack of a better term.The premise is quite simple; Margaret Tate,played by Sandra Bullock is a Canadian editor-in-chief of a book publishing company living in USA and in order to keep her visa and avoid being deported she blackmails her assistant,Andrew Paxton,played by Ryan Reynolds into marrying her; what people call a sham wedding.Obviously they have to pretend they're really together and in love so you can imagine the complications.And then the the viewer is hit right in the face (and I say this because it does hurt to watch something so unoriginal)with the biggest cliché possible, the characters develop true feelings for each other during this scheme. Both Reynolds and Bullock are fine actors and I have nothing bad to say about them, the problem here is the script.Its just a very lame,corny and mediocre comedy that really isn't worth watching when there are so many great movies out there.
5.5/10