To each their own opinion, but for goodness sake let's take a movie for what it is. What insane standards are being applied when this fun ride of a surprisingly well executed and well written, lighthearted yet wholesome American mainstream comedy deserves something like a 1/10 or worse ? Surely those people have no clue what context is and would consider only the darkest pseudo-intellectual humor as any decent comedy.
Ben Affleck to me was just the poster pretty boy for 13-20 year old teenage girls who only played in soap opera/Hollywood drama types, and yet I discovered him here at ease, in the vein of a Chris Evans in Not Another Teen Movie or Ryan Reynolds in Just Friends, in a role he absolutely nailed all things considered, that is that many scenes depend entirely on his delivery with very little happening around him, the lead and his completely crazy behavior which he manages to actually turn into something half-realistic despite the premise being far-fetched and distinctly fictitious in tone.
The story and scenes are very well written for a flick that runs about an hour and a half, with all the various subplot tensions crammed into this one short comedy with excellent efficiency, and it should be said that in spite of the haste in having to establish those subplots they still don't come across as blatantly fake or forced like they often do in these cheap wacky comedies, they're obviously improbable but rather cleverly injected into a natural current that drives the film from start to finish.
It's actually funny. It delivers a moral, and even a bit of emotion at the end with a few genuinely touching scenes, it's entertaining all the way through but more importantly it's wholesome. It resonates with the viewer because of its underlying truth. And what it points at, is beautiful.
Ben Affleck to me was just the poster pretty boy for 13-20 year old teenage girls who only played in soap opera/Hollywood drama types, and yet I discovered him here at ease, in the vein of a Chris Evans in Not Another Teen Movie or Ryan Reynolds in Just Friends, in a role he absolutely nailed all things considered, that is that many scenes depend entirely on his delivery with very little happening around him, the lead and his completely crazy behavior which he manages to actually turn into something half-realistic despite the premise being far-fetched and distinctly fictitious in tone.
The story and scenes are very well written for a flick that runs about an hour and a half, with all the various subplot tensions crammed into this one short comedy with excellent efficiency, and it should be said that in spite of the haste in having to establish those subplots they still don't come across as blatantly fake or forced like they often do in these cheap wacky comedies, they're obviously improbable but rather cleverly injected into a natural current that drives the film from start to finish.
It's actually funny. It delivers a moral, and even a bit of emotion at the end with a few genuinely touching scenes, it's entertaining all the way through but more importantly it's wholesome. It resonates with the viewer because of its underlying truth. And what it points at, is beautiful.