Good trailer, awful movie

Rating: 3/10 (5 May 2009)

What is the best thing I can say about The Proposal? Two word: Ryan Reynolds. The movie will further cement the actor's rep as a very likable and talented, soon-to-be full-blown movie star. (Especially with today's news that he will be the star of the next X-Men feature.) That aside, this movie is one major disappointment.
Full disclosure: I'm a fan of the rom-com genre and, as such, I tend to cut them a lot of slack. The Proposal, however, just doesn't cut it. If not including every cliché in the rom-com handbook, it certainly covers a slew of them.
Predictability is one thing. Poorly written and badly directed, with several irritating lapses in logic (that are not even plot-driven, which makes them all the more irritating) this is a movie to be avoided at all costs, especially for fans of Sandra Bullock and Betty White.