Ms. Amused

This movie is made of so much fail.

I really REALLY do not get how we’re supposed to sympathize or like a the lead who is highly judgmental about his new wife (makes a big deal out of things that aren’t big deals) in order to justify cheating on her. Watching this movie makes me feel bad for Christine Taylor because it doesn’t seem to be made by people who like women very much. I’m looking at Ben, the Farrelly brothers and whoever wrote this shite. Looking at IMDB, Scot Armstrong & Leslie Dixon are the writers. Scot I can see based on his other credits but I’m surprised at Leslie since I like her other movies. I did get a feeling that someone had attempted to reign in the misogyny a bit, maybe that was her? Scot clearly belongs to the Judd Apatow crowd… I despise the bulk of Judd’s work and this crap rates even lower than a lot of his.

It was rather surreal because normally when you have the people who hate the lead and are very critical and etc, you’re rooting for him to show them that they’re wrong. This time… THEY’RE NOT WRONG!! The guy (Stiller) is an absolute shmuck of an ass and rarely does anything redeeming. I just don’t have patience with people (or characters) who operate with complete disregard for how they affect other people and their lives. He barely shows any remorse for the emotional hell that he puts his new wife through. She may be slightly nuts but like he’s not? Not grounds for dismissal and I resented that they made it seem that she deserved what she got or that she was a harpy for acting like a woman who’d just been dealt some low dirty blows from her new husband.  She was the sympathetic character in this… not Stiller. Or the other girl perhaps who I just can’t buy her dumping her husband in the end for Stiller cause hello? He’s shit.

Heartbreak Kid my ass… HE deserved all the crap that happened to him and didn’t deserve the good stuff like the women who married him and “the girl” he fell for.

I agree with other people’s comments that Stiller’s been doing the same thing over and over again. It’s been a long time since Ben’s done anything worth watching. Meet the Parents is the only thing I can think of that was ok at all and I credit DeNiro & Hoffman & Blythe Danner & Babs for that.

So why did I watch it the whole way through? Because I was too lazy to get up and turn it off, plus the horridness made it easier to concentrate more on my knitting which got done much faster!

Why did I watch this at all? Well I keep holding out hope that he’ll pull out something decent again like Meet The Parents & Meet The Fockers. Adam Sandler’s a far better bet. Even if I haven’t loved all of his recent movies, I  didn’t hate any of them… not even Click. And some were really damn good… Spanglish & Reign Over Me were jaw droppingly good as he departed from the comedy standard and showed some drama chops. But I digress…