From the Movie Snob.

If you don't make it to Blockbuster Video until fairly late Saturday evening, the pickins are going to be slim, and you probably deserve whatever you get. This weekend, what I got was the atrocious How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Am I the only one who has noticed that modern romantic comedies are seldom funny and almost never romantic? The premise of this movie is ludicrous to begin with, and it is completely predictable from the beginning to the end (almost two painful hours later). (I did get a kick out of the two babes who set Matthew McConaughey's character up for a fall -- they slink around together like those two Siamese cats on Lady and the Tramp, and they're just as mean.)

I won't bother you with the plot and stuff, but I have to remark on what the movie-maker apparently believes passes for realistic dating behavior among young single people these days. Sure there are people who start their relationships by having sex within the first day or two of knowing each other, but do such women really get horrendously upset and depressed when such men don't seem to be hearing wedding bells within a week? (And stop calling to boot?) Do that many couples, after knowing each other for about a week, proceed to take a shower together in the fellow's parents' house, with his very young nieces and nephews running around no less? Somebody help me out here.