Sandra Bullock, an ambitious book editor, has an expired visa and needs to get married to stay in the United States. She blackmails her assistant, Ryan Reynolds, into marrying her and off they go to break the news to his parents.
I am fully aware, that in general, romantic comedies are meant to be fluff. Mindless entertainment that makes you smile and cheer the endearing couple onto blissful happy endings. I am aware of this, I am. I still expect more.
This unlikely couple starts the movie off hating each other—common enough, most romances start this way right? No, this one is a tad more extreme. Ryan Reynolds loathes his boss. He has worked for her for three years, knows everything about her, and finds nothing about her charming. He hates and despises her. Sandra Bullock expects the world from her assistant and offers nothing in return. Again they have worked together for three years and she knows nothing about him. Her “Devil Wears Prada” attitude seems to be that assistants should be neither seen nor heard. This contempt for one another continues into their charade of an engagement and makes the inevitable love story so hard to swallow.
The comedy is weak, the story flawed, and nothing is more annoying than casting an elderly person for the sole purpose of making crude sexual jokes (Betty White). It just isn’t funny. The dialogue is awkward and far from clever.
** Rentable
Rated PG-13 (sexual content, language and nudity)
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