"How about we say what we want on three?" "I want a divorce." "Creme brulee."

Year: 2011

Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Writer: Dan Fogelman

A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.

- The Heretic018 

Well, there was other stuff happening at the same time in this movie, like this girl Hannah was going to take her bar exam and she thinks her boyfriend will propose to her, the babysitter was inlove with the middle-aged guy, etcetera, etcetera. There were a lot of different love things going on at the same time. 

And again I didn't know anything about the plot when I started watching. I just wanted to watch something quickly, so I chose this one without reading a summary or anything.

First of all, I think it was very realistic how people had crushes on someone somehow unexpected. Like the boy had a crush on the babysitter, who had a crush on the dad, who was in love with his wife, who wanted divorced, but still loved her husband very much. It was realistic in the way that there was not too much sudden chemistry where people love each other ,it was one-sided crushes. Of course there were characters who loved each other, who fell in love with each other. It was sort of realistic and it was fun.

But this movie wasn't as much fun as I was kind of hoping. Well, it's not a romantic comedy, it's a romantic comedy drama, and that drama there is a bad omen. Not really, but if something is a comedy drama, then it's not a simple comedy but has something more serious in the story too. So in short, this movie was kind of boring, and definitely predictable.

But I really loved that scene were Hannah and Jacob were in bed, that scene was very sweet. It wasn't as realistic as the sex scene in Friends With Benefits, since it wasn't even a sex scene, but it was just so sweet and fun, it was amazing. That was kind of scene I still keep watching romantic movies for.

The ending kind of let me down. At first I was hopeful, because it was so chaotically fun, but then it got serious, and there was this big deep speech in the end and blah blah blah. 

The soundtrack was good. Many of those songs were good, though they'd deserve to be in a better movie.

The casting was great though. Steve Carell is good, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone are marvellous... Ryan Gosling is so good looking it almost makes up for all the worse parts. Almost.

So, in short, this movie was decent. It's not even worth seeing, because basically this movie is like three different movie stories combined, and not even well combined. You can definitely find something better than this.

☆☆☆

3 / 10