Their loose-lipped usage of ludicrous monetary amounts was the most hilarious part of the entire show, IMO. I don't mean to offend anyone - and I am certainly not trying to stereotype lower-to-middle income women at all - but I think the show was geared toward those middle-to-lower income women who fantasize about marrying a rich/famous man and who do have little knowledge of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Obviously, there are some realities to being wealthy/famous that this film does well to show (ultra-tight security, your life is changed forever and your anonymity is gone, etc.), and how it's not just marrying your knight in shining armor and off you go to live happily ever after in a castle.
But they throw around money terminology and money amounts that are so ridiculous that it detracts a lot from whatever reality (and there was probably little to begin with) the show might have had to offer. I.e., "$50 million ransom." The best was when the guy is trying to get her to sign a prenup, saying that if the guy's first wife had signed one, she'd be worth something like "$13 billion" (or whatever the amount was - I believe it was over $10 billion), which is just completely absurd.
(Spoiler alert from here on out - as if you really needed one if you're checking out this movie on IMDB)
Also, I loved how the quaint little cabin that the rich guy has to "get away from things" is like a whole mile away from the main house. I mean, the main house is apparently somewhat out in the country anyway, and the cabin is like ... not that far away at all (and yet, as opposed to the house, is apparently way too far out to get a cel phone signal). Not that that's entirely inconceivable, but frankly, I might have expected a bit more for a guy who's worth billions and billions of dollars (a point that is reiterated throughout the movie to the viewer). Like when he tells his wife that he has a surprise for her and that they're not going to the party but rather going to his little cabin to get away from things, I was thinking that they were going to fly away to some other country or maybe even some other state. Instead, they drive down the street for less than a mile. Wow, talk about taking a load off and getting away from things. For a big-time multi-billionaire he really goes all out, doesn't he? Chuckle.
Also, the bad guys at the end of the movie are going to try to kill the wife and husband at the cabin by burning the place down and making it look like an accident. They say, yeah, there'll be suspicious talk about the deaths but they're going to at least make it look somewhat like an accident. So they tie up the couple inside the cabin and pour kerosene all over the place. Then what does the dumbass bad-guy do? He drops the kerosene can and just leaves it in the cabin. Nice goin', jackball - trying to make it look like an accident, but leave the gas can. Don't suppose anyone might suspect arson, do you? Apparently not. I know it's just a movie, but it's stuff like this that is just really dumb.
Overall, I didn't think the concept or general plot for the movie was bad at all. I think too many people presume that being filthy rich or famous is like living on cloud nine, and this movie shows some of the reasons why it's probably not. I'd probably give the movie a C+ as a whole.
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