Product: The Bachelor (1999)
Rating: 2.0
An Embarrassing Comedic Bomb.
The bargain-rack movie for last night was "The Bachelor." I guess it was one of these things that was supposed to be a romantic comedy. It starred Chris O'Donnell and Renee Zellweger and had a remarkable assortment of big names in smaller supporting roles. I'm amazed at this cast. However, the whole thing was a complete bomb. It was a comedy that just turned out to be embarrassing in it's effort to be funny. O'Donnell came across more as a dip, suffering from a terminal case of foot-in-mouth disease, than a leading man, which would be okay for a comedy if it was funny. It wasn't. To her credit, Zellweger was one of the few cast members that was at least partly believable. Ed Asner and some of the other big names should crawl in a hole.In any case, O'Donnell played a bachelor who had reached the old age of 30. His obnoxious grandfather thought he should be married and left him 100 million dollars in his will provided he was married within about a week. Well, he completely goofed his proposal to his rather nice girlfriend (Zellweger) and then went on a streak of asking everyone he had been going out with in his recent history in order to meet the fast-closing deadline in the will. One by one. You guessed it. All blunders, and all rejections. How dumb can something get? Next, his plight got into the newspapers and hundreds of potential bridesmaids, all dressed in wedding gowns and all with their eyes on the $100 million, streamed after him in riotous fashion. We're supposed to laugh. Get it? This movie just got to be so bad that I couldn't bear to sit through it until the end. Enough! I breathed a sigh of relief as I turned it off. The supposed comedy was just a total failure! All associated with it should hang their heads in shame, Renee Zellweger exempted.Gary Peterson