As much as you promise yourself you wouldn’t watch it; you scan by many selections and settle for one like this; and the worst part about it, is that it actually makes you laugh and cry. I call these kind of movies, ‘Cookie-Cutter’ movies; they manufacture the same kind of these over and over again, and it’s those that always keep the masses’ coming back for more at the box-office. Not my ‘usual’ choice of film; but it was entertaining nonetheless.
This light and fluffy romantic comedy ‘surprisingly not starring Jennifer Aniston’ was written by Elizabeth Meriwether and Michael Samonek, and directed by Ivan Reitman. Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman team along with Kevin Kline, Lake Bell, Ludacris, Mindy Kaling and Jake M. Johnson among others that bring the funny at all the right timings. We followed the lovely sweet-hearts from high school to University and then to adult-hood where their attraction heightens to it’s peak. Portman who plays Emma is afraid of feeling emotions that come with love and Kutcher who plays Adam is just the opposite where all he wants to do is love. A curious dynamic because of the switching of roles in gender outlooks.
Some say that friendship has its benefits and others say it cannot be done. Unless you are a heartless alien to the human-race then it may work; otherwise it’s inevitable that the mind starts finding the other irresistible. The moral of this simple story is, when you find the one that makes your heart skip a beat, don’t be afraid, and don’t let them get away. Sure you may feel stupid, vulnerable and you may think it’s too late, but it’s never too late to the person that loves you too; it works in the movies…it just might work for you too! J
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