An old recycled plot: tough bitch of a woman boss Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) makes lackey Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) life a bitch as well until she gets herself into a sticky situation and he is the only way to get out of it. She’s being deported back to Canada (really?) and she needs a fake husband to keep her in the country. Paxton needs and wants a better position in the company she terrorizes, so a pact is made with the devil, let the laughs begin.
Sorry to say, the laughs were minimal. Reynolds gets the best lines, the asides, the under-the-breath come backs. However, those do not a “best comedy of the year” make. There is the predictable change from Tate as a tough as nails rock into a giggly, girly, soft woman that of course Paxton finds irresistible and loveable. Yes, she too has her moments, her scenes that even if totally out of character are amusing, but again, it does not provide the movie laurels to rest upon. If you watch The Office, you might enjoy, as I did, the many roles portrayed by Oscar Nunez (Ramone) which is so far from the character he plays on TV.
If you can take the film at face value, not expecting it to take on any form of realism or even remote possibilities, then you may enjoy the scene or two that make it the “best comedy of the year!”
½ Bite: Entertaining for its brief humorous line here and there; pabulum.
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