I Can't Believe How Well-Reviewed This Was

Holy crap it would take forever to list all of this movie's flaws.

It's not the filmmakers' fault that the plot was thin and scattershot, it was overloaded with underdeveloped characters that do things no one could care about (the affair that ripped a couple we'd known for only like 3 minutes apart--what the hell was that?), or that the "smart, funny dialogue" we kept hearing about was essentially a 90-minute Gilmore Girls episode. They started with a clever idea and then made an underwhelming, we're-trying-too-hard-to-be-quirky comedy. A lot of people do. That's okay.

The problem is that Hollywood continues to invest untold millions into trying to convince us that women are funny and need to be affirmative-actioned into the comedy world. And the critics dance along because nobody wants to look behind the times or sexist. I remember how a year or two ago, the entire film industry, my girlfriend and my sister all insisted that Bridesmaids was uproariously funny so I went to see it with relatively high hopes. Christ on a cross.

I went into this movie cold. Didn't even know Lake Bell was the lead. I saw the Sundance logo on the poster and the rating on Rotten Tomatoes and, silly me, allowed myself to get snookered once again. I thought "this should be pretty clever."

Screw you, Hollywood. I hate you.