Product: The Bachelor (1999)
Rating: 1.0
Dire
This tired romantic comedy is a con as it is neither comic nor romantic. The perfunctory plot has Jimmie (O'Donnell) as a fun-loving guy that is certainly in no rush to settle down. When his grandfather dies and promises him $120 million on the condition that he gets married within 24 hours. The rest of the movie basically concerns his worries over trying to win back Anne (Zellweger) whilst he `struggles' with the dilemma of whether he only wants to marry her for the cash or not. Of course, this leads to a lot of running after Anne, who dumped him previously due to a botched marriage proposal the night before. In between his friends try and fix him up with a few celebrity cameos such as Mariah Carey.O'Donnell is quite unable to carry a movie by himself and Zellweger's endearing character isn't on screen nearly as much as you'd like her to be. The list of cameos is perhaps reason enough to watch this, and to be fair there is one genuinely funny scene where Jimmie is chased down the street by hundreds of wannabe brides. Yet its sappy conclusion and too-perfect-to-be true realisation of Jimmie at the end that he does love Anne make this one movie to miss.