![]() He conveniently meets Jenny, who's now a successful doctor. To pick up the boy's spirit, Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas) shows the lad how to pick up women and then treat them like trash.Ĭonnor grows up to become a successful photographer of celebrities and models and beds every one of them. You see, the love of Connor's life, Jenny Perotti (Garner), broke his heart when he was a teen. The plot of the film has serial womanizer Connor Mead (McConaughey) scoring with more cerebrally challenged nymphs than Hugh Hefner on a Playboy Bunny bender. The hunk also winds up with the assistant and the Beaver hooks up with Eddie Haskell. The father and mother of the bride, who are divorced, rekindle their relationship on the dance floor. The bridesmaids hook up with the nerds and they're sober when they do it. How can you care about anybody if they're drawn with all the dimension of a single-ply piece of tissue paper?Įven more annoying than the stereotypes is the happy-sappy ending where everybody gets a partner, and I mean everybody, no matter how preposterous the circumstances. Even Garner's character comes off as too good to be true. Hunky love interest for Garner's character who will somehow fade into the woodwork when McConaughey's character comes to his senses, check. Three beautiful horny bridesmaids, check. ![]() It's almost as if the filmmakers went shopping for them at Stereotypes 'R' Us and cleaned out the store. Then there are the innumerable stereotypes. The knuckle-dragging demographic should be pleased. The script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who previously teamed up for terminally unfunny "Four Christmases," is loaded with them. One of the many problems with "Ghosts" is for a romantic comedy, it's not particularly comical unless, of course, you crack up over lame gay jokes. Razzleberry dressing, anyone? The less said about "An American Carol" the better. However, it also stars the eminently ludicrous Matthew McConaughey, who hasn't starred in a good movie since Wild Bill Clinton was president.Īpart from the numerous film versions of "A Christmas Carol," the Dickens novel received a comical updating in 1988 with "Scrooged" starring Bill Murray as a modern-day Ebenezer and a scene-stealing Carol Kane as the Ghost of Christmas Present. It also co-stars the eminently likable Jennifer Garner. It actually pains me to speak ill of this film since it was shot primarily in Massachusetts, specifically the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Martha-Mary Chapel in Sudbury and the Elm Bank Reservation in Wellesley. Either that or Chuck should employ the ghost of Jacob Marley to pound these mediocrities senseless with a Christmas goose. If only his apparition could haunt the makers of "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" so they would mend their mundane ways posthaste. That sound you here is Charles Dickens rolling over in his grave like an airplane propeller.
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