I was surprised when I liked this movie, I figured it'd be one of those typical romantic comedies, I’m not saying its not but it’s a little more bearable.
So……Eddie Cantrow (Stiller) is a 40 year old bachelor whose reasons for not getting married are she doesn’t like my fantasy football league, she never shares her food, she doesn’t try anything new, and the ultimate………..she hates Caddyshack cuz she said the gopher looks fake.
While attending his ex-fiance’s wedding on valentine’s day, Cantrow starts to feel it, of course with a lil help from Daddy dearest (Stiller Snr – Jerry Stiller) and the required “happily” married male friend.
Eddie meets Lila after he tries to unsuccessfully retrieve her purse from a snatch thief. They get married and honeymoon in Cabo. Eddie meets Miranda (Michelle Monaghan, yes that pretty dark haired girl from gone baby gone) and her family. Now he just has to decide between the two.
You can’t help but feel for Lila at some point, although the Farrelly brothers go to extremes to make her seem just simply gross and crazy, you can kind of relate to her on some level. She’s a Volunteer Environmental Researcher by the way and has a deviated septum. She also wants him to hold her hand while they eat breakfast and then proceeds to start off a conversation about whether he thinks she's too hairy down there and if he wanted she could get rid of it and he'll be able to see her "kitty ring" better!
She likes rough sex knows of sex positions called Verti Cross Screw and Swedish Helicopter and says things like “Cock me, Hit Me”, “Fuck me like a black man”.
A conversation during sex:
Lila: JackHammer me, JackHammer me, JackHammer me!
Eddie: Can we try missionary position?
Lila: What's that? Can you pile drive me from that position?
This is the list of songs that Lila sings during the car ride to Cabo. Eddie sings along to only the first song.
Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Gloria Estefan - Conga
Blondie - Rapture
Barry Manilow - Ready to Take a Chance Again
Spice Girls - Wannabe
Captain & Tennille - Muskrat Love
Overall, it’s a sweet movie but everybody knows that the men in movies are nothing like the men in real life but it always nice to have a teensy weensy bit of false hope. If anything, this movie is worth watching just for the 2 worded ending, Fuck me.
3 pills out of 5
