One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Absolutely brilliant

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

What a disappointment. Contrived drivel interspersed with forced chemistry and awkward "sitcom"-like moments made this movie almost unwatchable. The only reason I gave it more than one star is because I'm such a huge fan of so many people in this movie: Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Isabella Rosselini, Sam Shepherd. You would think that any movie boasting such stars would be a fun romp, at the very least. But even this tremendously talented cast couldn't save the truly ridiculous script. It's a retread of a plot line seen in so many rom-coms, but done so much worse than others of the same ilk, and there was nothing fun about it. If you're thinking of spending 90 minutes watch a movie, don't waste your time on this one.

Not either a great or a memorable film but a pleasant piece of fluff after a week of "heavy" movies and a day where just about everything went wrong. I wasn't in the mood for murders, stabbings, graphic sex, Nazis or natural disasters. This was a needed change with some interesting characters, a silly plot and a few chuckles. There is nothing particularly good about this film. The acting, writing and cinematography are adequate if unexceptional. It's humorous without being hilarious. But neither is there any violence, profanity or message. It fit the bill on a Saturday night when I didn't want to think too much.

This movie was written by three women who can't possibly have ever had a single date amongst them. These virgin scribes don't write female characters well or male characters or young people or Caucasians or Indians or parents or children or…well, basically any variation of humanity that appears in this movie bears as much resemblance to actual people as I do to Bo Derek. Celibate monks and nuns who have never seen a member of the opposite sex could come up with a story that more closely mirrors human romance than The Accidental Husband. The entire production and everything in it is so fake and artificial that the entire cast could have been replaced by those little Playskool figures that are just plastic bodies and heads, with all the dialog voiced by really depressed Doberman Pinchers, and it wouldn't have made any difference.And don't think it is only the writing that's horrid. The invincible Britishness of Colin Firth carries him through and Ajay Naidu plays "funny ethnic stereotype" for all he's worth, but Uma Thurman and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are appalling. True, this screenplay requires them to do and say things that no one would ever do or say, but I don't think director Griffin Dunne instructed them to play their characters like they were reincarnated game show hosts from the 1970s. Sam Shepard wanders through the film like he showed up on the set expecting to do the voice over for a car commercial. The rest of the supporting characters might as well be reading off cue cards.The Accidental Husband is about Doctor Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman), a relationship expert with her own radio show and a new book coming out. After she talks a woman into calling off her marriage to firefighter Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), he decides to get even by having an Indian teenage hacker make Emma and Patrick officially married in the computer records of New York State. That interferes with Emma's plans to marry the eternally safe Richard Bratton (Colin Firth) and leads to a string of ever more implausible lies and astonishingly unconvincing scenes of growing attraction between Patrick and Emma.Because this is one of those motion pictures that are so resolutely horrible I could write a review 10,000 words long and still not cover each and every example of how it sucks, I'll just stick to one thing that I believe perfectly embodies how stupendously inept it is. The Accidental Husband is a love story, like many others, about people who discover they're meant to be together and must overcome obstacles in order to unite at the end and live happily ever after. Except at this conclusion where Emma and Richard are joined in love, the last scene of the two has them contentedly separated by a glass wall. They can see and talk to each other, but they can't touch. Now, when a love story ends with the lovers kept apart like that, there should be a point to it. Whether it's thematic or psychological or subtextual or referential, if your love story is going to finish with your lovers standing in a room with a glass wall between them, THERE SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF FRIGGIN' SIGNIFICANCE TO IT. As you may have guessed, there is no significance to such an ending here. It doesn't mean anything except "The people who wrote this film don't know what the bleep they're doing".Unless the most intimate relationship you've ever had in your life was with an inflatable sex doll, avoid watching The Accidental Husband. It's that bad.

This film could have been so much better; I found it did not live up to its potential. I really wanted to like this film, I am a big fan of Uma Thurman, and consider her a serious actress. I enjoyed her scenes as a radio talkshow host, and thought they were the best in the film. I also thought most of the advice she gave to her women listeners was honest, and forthright. The initial impression I got of her relationship with her fiancé Richard was that this was a loving, supportive relationship. I even found the humour in the way that she was accidentally married to Patrick. I just didn't like anything else about the film at all. I don't think that Uma is a great comic actress, and Colin Firth was wasted in this role. The actor who played Patrick was likable enough, but for me the film just wasn't funny enough, and the romance was not believable. For someone who recommended love and not infatuation or a passionate affair that would soon burn itself out, she didn't evaluate her own life properly when her beliefs were challenged, and she started questioning all that she had been telling her listeners. I would have liked her to have broadened her horizons, and developed relationships with her father, her colleagues and new friends, and become a more well-rounded person. Apart from that, there was nothing new in this film, and I would avoid it as a lighthearted romcom, because there's not much rom, and precious little com. I would recommend watching Uma in The Truth About Cats and Dogs instead. The rest of this review contains spoilers about this film, so please stop reading here if you wish to avoid any spoilers. SPOILER ALERT: (the rest of this review)I really didn't like the ending. Patrick obviously loved Sophia, and she had loved him and was not settling, so this storyline could have been handled differently. Emma's interaction with Patrick could have served to bring her down to earth from her ivory tower in the radio broadcasting studio, to realise that she had made a snap judgement on someone and a couple that she did not know at all. She could have had a few moments, a kiss with Patrick only to realise that he was a good man, and should go back to Sophia. For someone who claimed to love Sophia, Patrick certainly found new love rather quickly, and never really did anything to show why Emma should love him, other than that he was a hunky fireman, who was there to rescue her, and carry her off into the sunset. This bothered me. I could see how Richard might be a safe option, and Emma's attempts at controlling him, and mothering him were a sign that this was not a healthy relationship, but I could not see any reason for her to love Patrick. Here, I would have had her relax and let her hair down a little, as she did in the film, by becoming more involved in Patrick's community, and becoming more open and spontaneous. I would have had her bring Patrick and Sophia back together, to be a little bit more understanding of human frailties, and to kiss a few frogs, and make a few mistakes with men. I would have liked her to have walked off into the sunset on her own, independent, and still single, knowing that she would find the right man eventually. I might even have had her glimpse this man at Patrick and Sophia's wedding, with an introduction that showed the potential of a possible loving relationship, but leaving the ending open. That way, we would still have had the obligatory Hollywood happy ending, with Patrick and Sophia, but Emma would have learned new insight into love and relationships have stayed true to herself.