Life As We Know It
Melbourne Central Hoyts, 16/11/2010
Status: Behind by 9 films
This is what happens when you miss your session of RED. You have to watch something crappy instead.
Pick which bit of the plot of Life As We Know It is not like the others: A stupidly handsome womanizer (JOSH DUHAMEL, Tranformers) and an absurdly pretty career-driven businesswoman (KATHERINE HEIGL, 27 Dresses, Knocked Up) are thrown together, fish-out-of-water style when they care for the orphaned baby of their best friends who die horribly in a car accident. Hilarity, wackiness and a standard romantic pay-off (at the airport) ensue.
Did you spot the horrible car accident in there? Kinda sticks out, doesn’t it. Life As We Know It is a romcom with a tragedy plot. It’s a major point of difference to other romcoms, but the treatment is so by-the-numbers that it might as well not be there at all, the fit is just too odd. I suppose it’s trying to tap into a “life (and therefore romance) is complicated in these, our modern times” kind of thing, but it really just a gimmicky way to get our crazy-attractive fishes out of water.
My other choice, since I missed RED was Skyline, but I’m allergic to that guy who died in the first episode of Buffy. Now, though, I think I’m allergic to romcoms as well…
