Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
This movie has everything great and everything shit from romcoms.
The bad:
•Those scenes where main character A stands up in the middle of a room and talks about how love sucks because they had a bad experience and if for one second you think about another person’s perspective it’s fucking awkward. It’s preaching for assholes.
•Those scenes similar to those except towards the end and in a positive light, where main character says “I used to believe love is so and so but now I realise blah blah blah” and goes on about personal experience with love in a completely irrelevant circumstance.
•Cringe humour that’s intended to be humour but it’s just pure cringe.
•Guy who just wont back off in pursuing girl who’s not interested and gets creeped out but it ends up working anyway
•Those big romantic gestures that if done in real life to someone not currently partnered up with them then it’s creepy, and if they are then it’s cool but unnecessary but in movies always work
The good:
•Moments between people having wholesome fun while still intimate
•Those ridiculous everyone fighting over girl scenes
•40 year old virgin situation of middle aged guy becoming player
•Steve Carrel
Overall it’s funny but it has a lot of moments that drag it down. It also covers themes of miscommunication at the beginning pretty well.
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