I watched this movie last night, I thought it was very neat! To all the people who say that the McCarthy character is intolerable: yeah, she is a little bitch, but that is the whole point. She is out of touch with reality somewhat, sly, mean, and a compulsive liar; she is PATHETIC, but that is the whole kicker. She reminded me of a little overweight wild animal, who, when cornered, dashes left and right and then bites you and tries to escape, but Sandy managed to "tame" her in the end. Anyways, the whole point of her is to be a little bitch, but given her background, that actually <more> makes sense. Nobody ever showed her what is right and what is wrong, and she kept on lying and making up new identities for herself so she would not have to deal with who she really was. That is why she wasted all those moneys on booze for other people and some stupid junk that she decorated her house with. It did look at first that she really did not have a heart, but after hearing the daughter call her daddy on the phone, we see her break down and cry. I mean, I can relate to her in many ways and I feel that a woman like that might actually exist somewhere: wacky, cunning, lying cheating and stealing, but with some good deep in her heart and a deep need to be loved. The fact that many people hated her character is actually a compliment; I am sure that if you met her in real life, you would not be able to handle her. Melissa played her role perfectly, and the Sandy character was pretty good too, if a little dull, but he was supposed to be a wussy. The only thing I would've thrown out was those secondary characters, the bounty hunter and the gangsters, they were not really necessary and a bit "over the top" but then this was supposed to be a pretty lighthearted comedy so they did still fit in. To summarize, I think that people did not like it because: 1 Some of the credit card detail stuff did not make sense but people ARE actually so stupid in real life they would give you their identity information sometimes even without you having to ask them for it. Just read the notalwaysright website; a lot of those customer stories feature very very dumb real life people . 2 The Melissa character was a little bitch and some people just could not handle her being soooo obnoxious I found it hilarious . 3 The Sandy guy was a wussy and I guess some people do not like men being portrayed as such in films. 4 The movie was predictable in the sense that yeah, they made it home and bonded along the way. But so what? I thought that the character transformation/revelation was pretty neat. 5 The Melissa character was overweight and other overweight people did not like the weight issue as a part of a comedy. Grow up! 6 In general, people took the movie WAAAY too seriously, pointing out the inconsistencies, spoofs, etc. Who cares? This was supposed to be for entertainment purposes, not for a life-altering transformation or hours of dwelling upon it. Maybe you should go analyze "Airplane" and point out all the things that do not make sense in THAT movie hint: it would be all of them . So for everyone who said it was "the worst movie ever" and did not find it even a single bit funny. Grow up, really! You're taking life waay too seriously. <less> |