Sadly Over-hyped

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Kaye Hudson had me on the edge of my seat trying to figure out who she was .. and I never did. All of the characters were horrible. Well acted pigs and shallow humans. Who did I like the most? Probably the extras. An uncomfortable, nasty waste of time. Again, well acted, and almost entertaining, but mostly an uncomfortable ride with little redeeming value.Why do I need more lines of text?OK. What was the moral? There was no moral?Why did the bride marry the groom she married? Who knows?What was the deal with the Bride, her sister, and her mom?No spoiler here, but after you see the movie, you'll want to know.

Please, somebody tell to miss Hudson read screenplay, before acting in movies. Please, somebody tell to Mr. Cook - go back to bar, and never again try to by a movie actor. Please, somebody tell to Jason Biggs - back to last job, before you start your carrier. Please, Mr. Doitch - stop directing a movies, you are not for this job. Please, somebody tell a screenwriter - before you write something new - read a some books, or better - never again write. Hollywood lose your sense fora a good rom-com. If you, folks, need a good rom-com white black satiric humor, please search a from something different place - maybe a British movies, or from another European country. Escuse my bad English - just this not my birth language.

This was one of the best comedies I have ever seen. I literally had beverage spewing out of my mouth. Those who didn't like it? Well they must be more the conservative prudish type. Was it a little raunchy? yes. But thats partly what made it so funny. When you are thinking "o no he didn't" you then see "o yes he did". Dane cook is absolutely friggen hilarious! And anyone who knows dane cook knows his comedy style. So you get what you are expecting. No, you get better! I didn't see this at the movies- it was a rental. And glad I didn't because the laughter would have drowned out the movie! But, it would ahev been worth it. Maybe I just have a dirty/nasty sense of humor, but i have recommended this movie to all my friends and family.

Tank Turner (Dane Cook) is special kind of cad: he is a cad for hire, a kind of mercenary who gets paid by other men to make women's lives miserable. Why would other man pay Tank lots of cash to do such a terrible thing? Well, the men are ex-boyfriends or boyfriend wannabes who believe (probably after a lot of hints) that they are not good enough for these women. So they turn to the one man who is guaranteed to give these women the worst experience of their entire lives: Tank, the Adolf Hitler of dates. The premise alone is interesting. But what makes the first thirty or so minutes of this movie work so well is the amount of imagination and cleverness that went into creating these truly awful dating scenarios. Another important factor is Dane Cook who plays Tank Turner like a natural. His part is not an easy one. He has to be rude and outrageous without turning off the audience. This is harder than it seems because there are many films like "Total Eclipse" where mean spirited performances can and do go terribly wrong. It is also easy in these situations for an actor's performance to come across as forced. Just take Julia Roberts' performance as Erin Brockowitch which was forced and even implausible. But Dan Cook pulls it off and generates the kind of energy and excitement that keeps a film like this going. Kate Hudson (Alexis) is also effective as the foil to Dan Cook. Alexis is the one woman who, in spite of being taken on the worst date of her life, is attracted to Tank Turner. She kisses him outside her apartment and even asks him to sleep over. She is not desperate. In spite of the fact that she spent most of her life looking for a relationship with the right man, she discovers that she likes bad boys a lot more.But after the thirty or so minutes about this story line, the film loses its direction. It honestly does not know where to go next. It chooses the safest way out of this predicament -- the predictable romantic comedy -- and the result is that the film becomes predictable and boring. I suspect that the producers realized their mistake during shooting and tried to make up for it by inserting a couple more "bad date" scenes to spice things up. But those bad dates are clumsily inserted and are really eye sores. Take for example those scenes where Tank Turner misbehaves in the worst way possible at the wedding of Alexis' sister in the hope that his behavior would end his relationship with Alexis. This scene, I think, was meant to be funny. But really it appears cruel and tasteless (comparable to many of the scenes in "Total Eclipse"). And why does it come across that way? The reason is that in the beginning there was a logical reason for Turner's terrible behavior, a method to his madness. But here there was no justification at all. It is just a desperate attempt to generate excitement and laughs in a film that has turned sour long before. Even the Professor Turner character (which is played quite decently by Alec Baldwin) seems like a cheap plot devise to generate laughs in a film that stopped being funny. Finally the end does not work very well either.