Very disappointed :(

disgusting, overrated, pointless

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is a true chick flick and a waste of a chick flick at that. Shallow characters, hamish acting, predictable dialogue, and Hollywood formulaic scripting. Certainly didn't improve the movie career of Parker. It's just typical Hollywood dreck they crank out to suck people into paying $8.00 for a movie. Avoid this movie unless you want to be put in a coma. You can probably stream this over Netflix or Hulu which is good because you can fast forward really fast. I've tried to find some small redeeming quality in this movie, but nothing comes to mind. I guess it could be used for torturing terrorist suspects by forcing them to watch this movie over and over and making them choke on their own vomit. It's that bad.

The movie is about a 35 year old guy (Matthew McConaughey) who still lives with his parents (Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw, they want him to move and hire Sarah Jessica Parker to help them. Now this makes no sense. Why would they do it, why not just talk to him? I understand that without it there would be no movie, but it just makes me think that they probably have a horrible relationship with their son.The main cast was horrible. Matthew McConaughey is playing the same character that he usually plays. And this is an incredibly annoying, arrogant, obnoxious, selfish dumbass who is just impossible to like. Not only that, he is also not funny. I just cringe instead of laughing when I see him.I actually do like Sarah Jessica Parker, but I didn't like her in this movie. And this is not because I am a sexist loser who thinks that she is too old for it (because if a woman is a couple of years older than a man then she is obviously too old, women are all ancient after the age of 25 as we know). But her character has absolutely no depth. She is playing someone similar to Carrie Bradshaw, but we know absolutely nothing about her besides her profession.Not only are the two main characters impossible to care about, they also have absolutely no chemistry. And there is no way I believe that they were in love.Besides the main cast there was another thing that i didn't like. Whats up with all those animal biting slapstick? It didn't fit into this movie and was absolutely not funny.I would have rated this movie 2/10, but supporting characters made me not regret too much that I watched it. I especially liked Zooey Deshanel, who plays the weird roommate of SJP and Matthew McCoughney's friends Justin Bartha and Bradley Cooper. These characters were written much better than the main ones, they were the ones who made me laugh in this movie and I was much more interested in their stories than the main ones.

Spoilers I have not seen this movie as many times as the usual movie that I review. I have only seen it once, usually I watch a movie 10 or 12 times before saying something about it. I don't recall any of the character's names. I do not recall the music of the movie, which is to say it is definitely not "Rocky" or (Rocky's Sequels), "Flashdance", or "The Holiday". It does not have a motivating song by the Gin Blossoms playing in a fast moving climactic scene, like "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days". Therefore, I was not driven into the fantasy ending, the way the music of the movies above drive/motivate the viewer into wanting to accept the fantasy ending.The move has a great premise, a guy (Matt McCaunnehey) purposely and successfully loses all of his girlfriends whenever he wants, by showing them he lives with his parents (Kathy Bates and Terry Bradshaw). However, the parents want him to move out, so they hire a therapist (Sarah Jessica Parker) to pretend to be his girlfriend and get him moving. The movie also deploys good subplots interweaving with the main plot: 1) McCaunnehey character's, hobby, boating and boating terminology, 2) The need to kill a mockingbird, toughness and romance of Sarah's female roommate, 3) and the consistent attack of animals against McCaunnehey's character. The animals attacks leads to comedy with McCaunnehey's exaggerated tales: (He was a huge killer chipmunk, with big vicious teeth). The animals attack because McCaunehey's character goes against nature living at home and letting women go.The story was set up so good, I wanted to buy in to this romantic fantasy, but the ending left me unmoved. Without motivational music or action packed climax, Sarah Parker's character lets McCaunnehey's character "inch along" toward her, while he is tied, gagged and bound to a chair. When finally ungaged McCaunnehey's character says "Now What Do We Do?" As a person who watches many romantic fantasies/comedies, I thought WHAT? Also, Parker's character has a sudden switch from "cool all knowing therapist" to "somewhat ditsy in love". Parker's roommate and her super tough macho personality, does not fit her character, given her inability to deal with sounds of a mocking bird. These things together with the actions of their friends forcing them together and loudly cheering the "inching along" scene I mentioned above, made the ending feel contrived, even for a romantic comedy/fantasy.Advice - Watch the set up, and middle, turn off the ending.

The reasonably humorous tale a player who refuses to grow up and move out of his parent's house actually makes a decent "date night" movie. The story follows the journey of Tripp (played by Matthew McConaughey), as he is duped by friends and family into finding love, and taking charge of his life. That journey has moments ranging from "laugh out loud" to "bring a tear to my eye" as we find out that Tripp has really been protecting himself and his feelings rather than simply being a cad. The cast mesh well together, and all gave sincere yet comedic performances. However I do feel that Sarah Jessica Parker should have been replaced with someone more age appropriate.