I hate to admit there are times when the dialog in this movie will make you laugh.  However, saying that, in today's world I find little to admire in the Character of Conner Mead, played by Matthew McConaughey.  Right from the start you will hate him as womanizer that sees every woman as a sex object.  He disguises it in euphemisms of like " I love all women" , the point is he wants all women for sex, then just as quick dumps them, once in a an online conference call with three at once while a another is waiting in his office to be serviced!  This is not a redeemable character.  Included in this cast of characters is Michael Douglas who plays a dead Uncle, a ghost of past that now dead is trying to undo some of the wrong he taught Conner as a youth in exploiting women.  Jennifer Garner who plays his old child heart throb, the childhood rejection that started Conner on his slippery slope in the beginning. Sorry, an unconvincing character to me.  We all want to believe that your childhood sweetheart, that beds you and leaves in the middle of the night is your night in shining armor, but after more than 10-15 years later to carry the torch secretly for them is a dysfunctional lie.  It works great for the story but in real life I have to call Bulls**t. 

 Anne Archer and Robert Forster play his brothers future in laws.  Anne Archer does well, has class and looks great.  Sadly the character of Chief Master Sgt. Volkom of the USMC retired is a buffoon but a pay check for veteran actor  Robert Forster .  A very irredeemable character that in my opinion has only one line that was memorable at the rehearsal dinner where Conner is cutting loose with a constant barrage of insults to marriage in general and trying to talk his brother out of the marriage, The father says " Hey, check that talk".  I would have been flying over the top if that was my daughter, but hey I already had that encounter and all is well.

So the girl friends, starting with his first, come and visit him and we find out, like in the Dickens story, what motivated and shapes the guy.  The story can get bogged down a little here but they have fill that in so we can have a final redemption scene like a good little romantic comedy with a happy ending.   Skip it, there should be better romantic comedies as the season unfolds.

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