Hated it

I wanted to like it. I like Thomas Beaudoin in these Hallmark style Rom Coms. seeing Alan Thicke was a nice surprise. I enjoyed the mock of the TV show obsession. But the love story was sooooo bad and the two leads the story was about (Chloe and Eric) were just so unlikeable. I just couldn't get in to it and would have told both their other partners to run. They wanted to portray Chloe as the victim and she was up until she wasn't. She was so unlikeable to me because they were trying to force us to want to route for her when she was clearly the villain in the story.

She did the right thing in breaking up with someone she felt wasn't giving her what she needed. He was a complete man child and she was developing a more mature and successful career and mindset. And she had a right to grieve because that is a hard decision to make. If she stayed with him and allowed him to treat her like his mother, she would have been miserable.

And Eric finding and marrying a bride that fast is so unbelievable when it's not involving cheating in the relationship. I can't believe he never once tried to contact her or grieved a way someone who loved his GF would grieve. I just didn't buy the setup. It works if the fiancé was pressuring him because she gave him the capitol needed for his book but then it wasn't a real love match and storylines dictates he realizes this at the end of the movie and DOESN'T marry her. But that never happens. His character just didn't work for me.

But regardless, now Chloe is jealous and wants him back now that he's the man she thinks he wants? She broke up with him and whining about it the way she did in the movie was just dumb. The fact her best friend didn't know the hotel her nephew worked at wasn't the place her boyfriend has been obsessed over for YEARS made no sense. Her working at the medical office while she is on vacation was dumb. Can you tell I really didn't like this movie?

It wanted to be charming and endearing like a 'My Best Friend's Wedding' or 'Maid of Honor' but the scenarios were just too ridiculous and forced. The best part of the movie for me was Alan Thicke's cameo at the end.