The story takes all the prerequisite twists and turns, plotwise and emotionally. Girl meets boy and is happy. Girl loses boy and is sad. Girl almost gets together with boy and is happy then sad. Girl meets other boy and discovers she is really happy.
Every romantic comedy has a gimmick.
Jane refers to them constantly and then compares them to the actions she observes in men. For somebody who supposedly went to college, she is sure emotionally immature. Except for the acting, none of the main characters are really appealing. They are all shallow, uninteresting people, absorbed in their own lives. Still, Jackman and Judd manage to make their characters tolerable, even charming at times, which helps Someone Like You , but not much.