Average Romcom

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 2010)

The protagonists aren't ugly and the film's not truthful. Apart from that it's... well it's not great. It's a romcom that ticks all the convention and cliché boxes, never once straining from the confines of the genre. The truth here, it is claimed, is that men are simple, butt hen the 2nd half of the film goes on rather predictably to show that the protagonist who claims this is precisely capable of being the ideal man he claims doesn't exist. But as this is fairly recognisable from the outset the only remaining question is whether the journey is worth it? Not really - there's one funny scene at a baseball game which involves a gag done much better in many more films, plus a When Harry Met Sally rip-off scene that misses everything that was funny about the original film. We get the expected montage(s) and a dance scene with a total chemistry vacuum. It's not awful - i did laugh once or twice, but the overriding hypocrisy, the total dearth of chemistry between the leads, and the single dimension in which the characters are drawn makes any kind of empathy whatsoever with the protagonists nigh on impossible.