Ghosts of Girlfriends past
Plot: Connor Mead is a fashion photographer and a certifiedbachelor/ladies man. He gets invited to his brothers wedding, where he gets visited by the ghost of his uncle Wayne. The ghost tells him to expect visits from three ghosts overnight, the ghost og girlfriends past, present and future. Will they help him change his ways and realise that his only true love, Jenny, could be escaping him.
My thoughts: You may be mistaken to think that this is a subtle remake of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol’. But you’d be wrong! Because it is no way subtle! In fact at one point it, it makes fun of the fact.; when the ghosts have visited he opens the window and calls out to a young lad in the snow “What day is it today? Is it Christmas?”
The characters are one dimensional so as not to complicate the idea of the simple plot. The film is cheesy but not unpleasant and although the comedy is never laugh out loud funny, there isbound to be enough to put a smile on your face. The characters are paint by numbers characters, as if someone had a checklist of stereotypes to have in the film. Connors character is “over the top” batchelor-esque but I suppose this is to make the change more obvious at the end.
On the whole a pleasant comedy, but it had no real stand out moments. I was wishing for a scene stealer like Rupert Everett in ‘My Best friends Wedding’, but it never quite happened.
Best bits: The ghost of Christmas Past was quite funny. And the Weding cake disaster
Score: 6/10