Sunday, July 3, 2011

JUST GO WITH IT: MORE LIKE, JUST GO AWAY WITH IT

Seeing reality TV icon Heidi Montague the first 10 minutes of this movie was a sad indicator of what to expect from the rest of it. This was of course one of those typical Adam Sandler everybody gets the truth mixed up kind of movie. Sandler is a tricky bachelor who uses a fake wedding ring to attract women. He isn't actually married, but the catch is that he pretends to be very unhappily married and on the brink of divorce. This setup alone is quite lame. To think that there are actually men out there who do this is also quite lame. So of course he has a meaningful encounter blond bombshell, Brooklyn Decker, and when she finds the ring he has to come up with some big story rather than sounding like the tool that he actually is about why he wears a ring. Enter comes Jennifer Aniston. My favorite. She is a coworker of Sandler's, the plain, unattractive, assistant who of course he has never thought about" that way". So she comes into the story as his soon-to-be ex-wife and of course this involves a makeover. Yes, we need to work that hard to make Jennifer Aniston look hot. So Decker wants to meet his soon to be pretend ex to make sure he isn't lying. Oh no, not lying in here! So hot new Aniston puts on a show and the jokes just fall flat. As if that weren't enough, we drag her children into the lie as well. This movie comes off like a bad Three's Company episode. I begrudgingly will admit to finding enough interest in this movie to watch it to the end There were moments that made it okay, like Nicole Kidman's small part as a past competitive rival to Aniston's character. Overall, if you miss this movie I think you will be able to get on with your life just fine. Spoiler alert, of course you know that Aniston and Sandler get together by the end of the movie don't you? I mean, you just have to see that one coming from a mile away.