It was kind of a toss-up movie. I'm not a big Adam Sandler fan. The person I was going with isn't a big Jennifer Aniston fan (although I am). But we both wanted a comedy last week Tuesday, and it was at a good time for us to get to it.
So... plot... Umm... Well... there's this guy in Los Angeles who meets women by pretending he's married. And that works really well (insert comments about our society's morality), until he meets someone who really likes him who actually doesn't want to be "the other woman." So he makes up a shrew whom he is divorcing, and explains away the ring.
Which would be a really short movie. Except that the woman wants to get his soon-to-be ex-wife's permission before dating him. So he talks his office manager person into playing his wife. And, eventually, hilarity ensues when they - through the miracles of a convoluted plot - end up in Hawaii with her two kids, his best friend, and - of course - her college rival.
What I really need to point out, though, is that some hilarity actually did ensue. I mean... if you could see through the potty humor, it got pretty funny. And it also got a little sweet.
I know I've panned some movies because they tried to be more than one thing. The comedies that wanted to be romantic. The action movies that wanted to be funny. But, honestly, when we got to the end of the movie, I was okay with the funny and with the sweet. Kind of like one of those Lemonhead candies with the sugar on the outside but the tartness on the inside. Or, well, not really like that, but sort of.
Overall grade: B. And, you know, some movies really just are Bs. Not that they're bad. They're just never going to be good.
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