When Joel and Molly meet, it's hate at first sight: his big Corporate Candy Company threatens to shut down her quirky indie shop. Plus, Joel is hung up on his sexy ex. But amazingly, they fall in love, until they break up about two thirds of the way through. Read more …
Reinforcing the very rom-com tropes it's sending up, this is a little too postmodern for its own good. Happily, Poehler and Rudd are as irresistible as ever.
Adorable, acidly funny and absurd in equal measures, this bouncy, gag-packed romcom spoof ain’t quite as funny as it thinks. But when Paul meets Amy, they’ll have you at ‘Hello’…
In short, despite a smattering of decent laughs, this ultimately feels like a sketch dragged out to feature length.
This is what a comedy movies should be like. Funny.
Funny and well observed spoof.
David Wain's New York-set, Jerry Zucker-like spoof of romcoms is very charming in its goofy and inane way.
It's essentially a 10-minute sketch stretched out to an 80-minute movie, which feels even longer.
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