marketed as a romantic comedy, it feels more like the kind of bad date movie you’d take an about-to-be-ex to just before you dump them. It’s not your conventional comedy which is a good thing, since it also feels like those odd moments around holidays when a relative bickers to their spouse in front of the family. Anyway, the plot is that Vince Vaughn is a Chicago tour operator and falls for Jennifer Aniston at a Cub’s game. Fast forward they live together and it’s the night they’re having both sets of parents over. Ann-Margret plays Anniston’s mother while John Michael Higgins does a fabulous job as her singing and gay brother. The two decide that neither will budge from their condo so they do everything to annoy each other, thinking that will make the other want them back. John Favreau is fabulous as Vaughn’s best buddy with the bad advice, while Judy Davis steals the movie as Marilyn Dean, Anniston’s gallery owner boss dispensing wild sexual advice. The story doesn’t have the Hollywood cookie cutter ending. And that’s a good thing. Just not enough to garnish more than Three Crowns – it’s more real life than movie.
