On my recent trip to NY, a friend and I had a hankering to go to a movie. The problem these days in Westchester is there are fewer and fewer movie theaters to inhabit. We finally found that there was still a dine-in cinema still in Dobbs Ferry. And the above cheesy romcom was one of the only things playing that we hadn't seen.
The above sounds like an apology and it shouldn't. Because, as a cinematic placeholder for fun, "Anybody But You" is a worthy representative. It's not going to carve a niche in film history. And you've seen variations of the plot over and over and over again. But, here, it's done well and I laughed out loud a lot. Who can explain?
The couple in question has a meet cute moment that immediately turns into hatred. Oddly enough, both find themselves as wedding party members at a ceremony in scenic Australia. To get through it all, the two haters pretend to be lovers and, of course, blind people can see what will happen next. But the script is sharp and the barbs are pointed. These folks do hatred well.
And maybe that's all you need. An interesting note of trivia can be found in the casting of the bride's parents played by Dermot Mulroney and Rachel Griffiths. Both of them played much young characters in that other cheesy wedding romcom "My Best Friend's Wedding." Um, that would be...gasp...27 years ago!
I guess the bigger note there is that romcoms, both good and mostly bad, still exist. For my money, "Anybody But You" is one of the good ones.
LEN'S RATING: Three stars.
Dinner last night: More leftover SPO.
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