Not a good movie

Hey Dennsylvania, not every movie can be a multi-million dollar production with Bill Murray delivering 'quirky' doses of safe humour. (lol, this guy gave Armageddon a '10' and Anchorman an '8')

I think it's great that you spent more time defending pre-emptive criticisms that don't exist yet then actually critiquing this film.

In fact, I can't find one reason in your entire post why you actually think it's a bad film, you just called it one.

Hey, better run to the television, I think 'Scrubs' is on! You can chuckle along to it's inoffensive wackiness! Oh, and since you didn't pre-empt this criticism I may as well deliver it - your vote history clearly shows favoritism for tightly-crafted, nonthreatening, well padded Hollywood schlock. If that's your gig, that's fine. It doesn't mean anything departing from that is inferior product.

Wow. It's amazing how different people can find the same thing either funny or not funny. I don't remember Andrew's mother being especially funny. Not saying she wasn't, just saying that I found so much of the movie funny, she got lost in my memory of it all.

Then again, I can understand how someone might not find any of it funny, perhaps. Maybe. But so much of humor is based on things that are painful, or stupid, or violent, or wrong in one way or another. Humor is a funny thing, I guess...

I guess that for me, the humor came by way of how disgusting the story was. Like when Adrian is showing his new bride how to clean a toilet, or "cook" chili, or feed the snake. It was disgusting really, but that's exactly why it was funny. The kind of thing that would make you ask "is this guy for real?".

I guess it was funny too, because the whole thing was an elaborate joke. It presented itself as a documentary, not a "mockumentary". I kept asking myself if this could be real. It was supposed to be, but it was just so hard to believe that people would act like that before a camera.

Overall, the movie was one of the best "sleepers" I'd seen in a long time. Never heard of it, just happened to see it at a friend's house, and I absolutely loved it.

Another thing: It addressed in a perverse way, a real phenomenon. There really are catalogs of women who want to marry Americans, and lots of them really do wind up with Adrian types. There are also women who take advantage of lonely American men, women who only care about getting a ticket to America. Some outright ripoff artists. All the characters in the movie have real life counterparts, often more extreme. When it's real, it isn't funny at all.

Finally, I'd like to recommend a movie called "Picture Bride", which is a serious historical drama about how it might really have been around the turn of the century, for a Japanese woman who travels to Hawaii to marry a Japanese plantation worker. This was a very common thing there at that time, and I was extremely impressed at how accurately and carefully the movie presented Hawaiian plantation life in that time period. It wasn't paradise, lemme tell ya. Even the nuances of the accents were spot on. The movie was highly, highly praised in Hawaii by the descendants of people like that. Maybe it's just the Hawaiian in me that was touched by it, but touched I was, indeed.