eeeh.

it was OK. for all the hype it's been getting it's actually bad. I had expected a lot more.

LeBron was a pleasant surprise. I expected him to be wooden boy, but he was actually pretty good. I imagine when being filmed his scenes ended with everyone LOLing uncontrollably after "cut!"

Cliche rom-com after cliche rom-com. I obviously knew how the movie will end (that's expected, so not a minus of a movie per se), but i knew what they were going to say more than half the time.

Also "desperate housewives" rubbed me the wrong way... very wrong way. I know they were a tool in the story telling, kinda roll eyes inducing moment to "prove a point" of Amy's view on monogamous married life.  But at the end Amy realized that she was "so wrong" and basically it means that whatever was opposing her point of view is right. so "my life didn't start till i had kids" suddenly meant that "woman's only purpose in life is to bear babies" (probably in similarly exaggerated way as the original scene, but the message still kinda lingered there)

I also didn't find it to be particularly funny. Yes, I laughed at some points, but most of the time i found whole theater laughing and me sitting there and trying to figure out "what's so funny? why am i not getting it?" I get occasional laughs like that in almost any movie, if i go to a comedy i want to be leaving it with my stomach hurting...

I did like the chemistry and as usual the guy in that type of movie is easy to fall for. Although it was nice that he wasn't perfect and "prince on a white horse" as the genre demands. That scene when after the award where he was on her case about how he needed her there and she basically HAD to drop everything and not care about "pick up or you are fired" text and be there for him was pretty real. He was nervous and put in an uncomfortable situation, sounded like a jerk without really meaning it because emotions were raw. That's how any normal person (not just man) would react. Mature partner would recognize that and let the steam run out and talk it out later. Obviously Amy wasn't a mature partner due to her lifestyle so that was real too.

So don't get me wrong, i liked the movie, just not at the level of the hype. Just another one in the long line of rom-coms. I won't be rewatching it, i surely won't be getting it on any type of media, and if i had cable and ran across it in the "what's on now" i wouldn't stay on that channel.

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