10 Cents.  That is how much this movie cost me per minute of absolute torture.  Now I never use the words, “worst movie ever” because I’ve both seen and avoided some pretty terrible movies.  But this one definitely goes on the list and to think I paid for it is even more devastating.

 In theory, this movie should have been great.  After all, I collaborate on a website that loves to spoof movies and what better material exists than romantic comedies.  Unfortunately I heard the audience saying, “oooohhhh” or “eeeeewwww” WAY more times than I heard any out loud laughter.  Most of the movie was spent in stunned silence and to me part of the tragedy was how good this movie could have been. 

 The gags are extremely predictable and unoriginal…and most of them aren’t even spoofs at all but just identical replicas.  How is it funny to show Napoleon Dynamite saying exactly what Napoleon Dynamite says in his own movie?  How is it funny to watch characters dressed like the characters in My Best Friends Wedding singing “I Say a Little Prayer”?  Or to watch someone faking an orgasm in a restaurant (seriously!)?  Weren’t these things already funny in the original movies?  It’s not a talent when you take something that was funny and make it suddenly very unfunny.  And even more importantly, if they weren’t funny in the original movies, why do we need to see them again?!?!?  

(by the way, this was not an exhaustive list, I could have gone on for pages)!

 Now there were a few funny moments in the movie.  And by funny I mean I smiled or perhaps chuckled quietly.  The understated moments were clever but the writers for this movie never learned the art of subtle humor and usually ruined any moment that had potential.  I found the Mr. And Mrs. Smith scene very amusing thanks to some pretty decent comedic talent from Adam Campbell.  I also found the Say Anything moment to be a funny surprise. 

 I am still a fan of Allyson Hannigan though, despite this awful movie.  And while I can’t compliment her for this work, I would like to plug her comedy How I Met Your Mother, which is actually really witty and hilarious.  She is way better than this movie.

 The ending had a very brief and funny exchange where the main characters trade famous lines from the endings of many romantic comedies.  While it was amusing at the time, I now feel it was just a desperate attempt by the writers to cover four more movies that they had failed to defile earlier.

 

 

I would tell you to stick around for the outtakes at the end, which might be the funniest thing about this movie, but still isn’t very funny.  But then you would actually have to go see this movie, and I HIGHLY recommend you spend your 10 cents a minute on something else! 

I give it my first 1 out of 5..