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Summary: When Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) discovers that his wife (Julianne Moore) wants to end their marriage, he reluctantly faces the unwelcome prospect of single life with the counsel of the younger and smoother super-bachelor Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Meanwhile, Cal's adolescent son, Robbie (Jonah Bobo), has formed an unquenchable crush on his 17-year-old babysitter (Analeigh Tipton) -- but is she more interested in Robbie's recently unwed father?
I was enjoying it a good deal until it plunged into an unacceptable, cringe-inducing miasma of cheese with a speech scene near the end. Still, a number of enjoyable scenes up to that point, and fairly likable performances.
Crazy? Well, Marisa Tomei sure overdoes it on that front. Stupid? See previous sentence. Love? Naw, but I actually liked it, in a crazy, stupid kind of way.
Carell does well, but the kids aside this movie could have been the sequel to 40 year old Virgin, basically the same guy. Not impressed by Carell. Gosling owns the movie. Okay I admit it, I have a bit of a mancrush on Ryan Gosling. Gosling manages to to play both a master player/douchebag and lovestruck/good guy in the same movie which is quite impressive.A sweet movie i'm glad got made if for nothing else, then that I now have a direct link to Stone, Gosling and Carell in Six Degrees of Bacon
I got nothing but enjoyment from this film. It has great cast, with great performances from Gosling, Carell & the probably overlooked Analeigh Tipton. It made me laugh out loud more than expected, & had some great subtle bits. The script & characters are strong too; their the relationships meaningful, all helping this movie to have a really strong impact. I like it when a film is so self-aware of its more cliche moments, as it makes so cheesy scenes so much more enjoyable! A personal favourite.
This is a very funny movie. The best scene involves most of the characters in the back yard. The cast is great: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone and Maisa Tomei. This is so much better than your typical romantic comedy.
This is a very charming and likeable film. And it has a little depth that fits the mood quite well. Carrell, Gosling and Moore are great and I keep falling in love with Emma Stone each time I see her. The pacing could have been slightly better with 10 minutes cut out, but still the “feel good” film of the year.
Too slow and sentimental, with humor only in fits and starts, but Carell, Moore Stone and Tomei are charming and the whole thing leaves you with a good feeling. It should have ended earlier, though; that way, we could have been spared the contrived scene of Carell interrupting and completing his son's 8th grade valedictory speech. pulling on our collective heartstrings and winning back his wife and family in the process. (They did this stuff better in the '50's, but it was a mistake then too!)
For i guy like me, who enjoy romantic comedies and still a big fan of the classical Hollywood narrative (well executed, of course), this movie was a really good surprise. It was fun, sometimes heartbreaking, it treated respectfully its characters and develop well most of them. There is one or another cheesy, corny or cliche moment here and there but mostly, for me, the movie worked very well and was way more inteligent than most of romantic comedies nowadays.
They missed a couple great lines and witty replies; like with the wallet, just a, "17." would have been a great line.
But as for the film: it was great! It was hilarious, heart warming, and even interesting.
Steve Carell does a little indy ever year (Dan in Real Life, Little Miss Sunshine) and they're generally rather good. This is no exception. Basically a movie version of High School Never Ends. When it comes to love, whether your 13 or 44, we're all idiots. And the nice guys think they want to be players, when it's actually the other way around. Good stuff with some nuts moments.
I had my doubts about this film, but it was an entertaining movie. Steve Carell is at his best in this film because he is not trying to be overtly funny and plays a more natural character. Gosling is great as the super-suave womanizer and Moore, Stone, and Tomei play their parts well. It works all around if you can ignore a dumb subplot with a babysitter, a few leaps of coincidental faith story-wise, and that horrific "It's like you're Photoshopped" line.
Everyone has been saying this movie is a big step up from the typical rom-com fare we’ve been seeing lately, but is it really? I mean, in certain ways it outperforms the genre fluff we get with the normal Katherine Heigl or Jennifer Aniston movie, but in more ways it just falls back into that comfortable and familiar place of boring, formulaic garbage.
I wanted to say that I enjoyed this film overall. It has interesting characters, some occasionally smart writing, and a few pleasant surprises. Then I thought, while all that may be true, I didn't believe a single word or action made by any character in it. Some of the events border on farcical, and I also felt like most of the characters were unlikable. So... ultimately, I enjoyed the film until I sat and thought about it. Most of it is a wasted opportunity.