Post by dvdjunkie on Jun 18, 2009 9:20:30 GMT -6
Here it is, a truly bright and funny comedy directed at our funny bone, and relentlessly doesn't give up until you are hurting from laughing so hard.
Directed by Anne Fletcher, who last year gave us "27 Dresses" winds a very neat, tight story into a movie that some might call a 'chick' flick, but is truly meant for couples, and singles alike.
Sandra Bullock plays Margaret Tate, an uptight executive Editor-in-Chief of Colden Books in Boston, MA, who is suddenly faced with a dilemma. She needs to get married in order to keep her alien status in the US or face deportation back to Canada. Brilliant idea, in her eyes, force her young assistant (Ryan Reynolds) to go through a phoney marriage until the INS shows up and wants to see where they live, and meet their parents, and on and on. Margaret and Andrew go to see Andrew's parents, lovingly played by Mary Steenburgen and Craig T. Nelson, and his Grandma Annie, played by the scene-stealing Betty White.
More than just a silly comedy, this movie has heart, and it tugs at yours as this couple genuinely begin to fall in love. There are some very predictable moments in the film, but no enough to take away from the pleasure of watching two of the screen's hottest box-office draws play with your heat and funny bone.
Betty White's scenes, while some of them have been seen on television where she is making the rounds, are still fresh as ever when seen in context with the story. This is the perfect date night movie, and on the Junkie-Meter this gets a four out of five star rating.
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Directed by Anne Fletcher, who last year gave us "27 Dresses" winds a very neat, tight story into a movie that some might call a 'chick' flick, but is truly meant for couples, and singles alike.
Sandra Bullock plays Margaret Tate, an uptight executive Editor-in-Chief of Colden Books in Boston, MA, who is suddenly faced with a dilemma. She needs to get married in order to keep her alien status in the US or face deportation back to Canada. Brilliant idea, in her eyes, force her young assistant (Ryan Reynolds) to go through a phoney marriage until the INS shows up and wants to see where they live, and meet their parents, and on and on. Margaret and Andrew go to see Andrew's parents, lovingly played by Mary Steenburgen and Craig T. Nelson, and his Grandma Annie, played by the scene-stealing Betty White.
More than just a silly comedy, this movie has heart, and it tugs at yours as this couple genuinely begin to fall in love. There are some very predictable moments in the film, but no enough to take away from the pleasure of watching two of the screen's hottest box-office draws play with your heat and funny bone.
Betty White's scenes, while some of them have been seen on television where she is making the rounds, are still fresh as ever when seen in context with the story. This is the perfect date night movie, and on the Junkie-Meter this gets a four out of five star rating.
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