Davis P
Ghosts of girlfriends past starring Jennifer garner and Matthew Mconahey is actually a pretty cute Romantic comedy with good acting and funny lines of comedic dialogue. Emma Stone was absolutely hilarious in this movie! I couldn't stop laughing at her very funny lines of dialogue, her character was full of vibrant color and spirit. And Jennifer garner was very good in this film, I enjoyed her strong performance here, as well as Matthew's leading performance, he was good as well. This film is not a masterpiece, and yes, I have seen better, but to be honest, it was funny, cute, and kept my attention the whole way through. The chemistry between the characters is believable and real. Also I did like Anne Archer and her character in this movie, she was fun, and very well acted. A 7/10 overall.
SnoopyStyle
Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is a successful fashion photographer and a womanizer. Jenny Perotti (Jennifer Garner) is his childhood sweetheart, the one that got away. He goes to his younger brother Paul's (Breckin Meyer) wedding to convince him the error of his way. The ghost of his uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas) comes to renounce all his chauvinistic ways, and tells him that three ghosts are coming to visit him that night.So this is a slightly different version of A Christmas Carol. It's a pretty good adaptation idea. I just don't find most of it funny. Lacey Chabert tries her darndest to be comic relief. That's right. Lacey Chabert is the funniest one here. Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner make for a couple of good likable leads. In theory they could make a good rom-com out of this. But the execution is lacking. For them to have a chance at a good rom-com, they have to be much funnier.
Jackson Booth-Millard
The Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol has been made into films numerous times, all set in the seasonal time, but this is not another remake, this is taking the concept and refashioning it, from director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, Just Like Heaven, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Mr. Popper's Penguins). Basically Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is a successful fashion photographer, but he is also a womanising bachelor keen on casual sex, he was raised after his parents death, and learnt all his pulling tricks from his dead Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas). He is attending the rehearsal wedding dinner for his brother Paul (Breckin Meyer), but he is there to convince him not to marry his fiancée Sandra Volkom (Not Another Teen Movie's Lacey Chabert), but of course he ignores him. In the mens room Connor is startled to be visited by the ghost of his dead uncle, Wayne warns him that he will be visited by the ghosts of three (unofficial) girlfriends, past, present and future, and they will show him the error of his ways. He of course ignores this and assumes it was just a hallucination, but then this warning comes true with the visit of the first ghost, his first lover Allison Vandermeersh (Emma Stone), who shows him visions from his past, particularly his relationship with Jenny Perotti (Jennifer Garner). Jenny is the wedding planner, and Connor's childhood sweetheart and former girlfriend, and the past reveals how his treatment of her and of course the hundreds of other women has broken hearts and made bad events in his own life. Once back at the mansion where the rehearsal dinner is happening, Connor ends up destroying the wedding cake, and creating even more tension between Paul and Sandra, before being taken again by the next ghost of the present, in the form of his assistant Melanie (Noureen DeWulf). She shows him that behind his back and without him around, all the wedding guests dislike and make fun of him and his womanising ways, the real life Melanie is a part of this too, Paul stands up for him besides having similar feelings, and his upset more by Jenny, who feels something for him, drawn closer to Brad Frye (Daniel Sunjata). Connor returns again, and everyone has found out that Paul cheated with one of the bridesmaids early in his and Sandra's relationship, Connor let this slip, she is saying she will call off the wedding, and Connor is thrown out. It is outside the mansion that he is visited by the third and final Ghost of Girlfriends Future (Olga Maliouk), and she shows him what will happen if he does not change his attitude towards women and his friends and family, including his own funeral that only Paul attends. Connor has realised what he has done wrong, and he rushes to stop Sandra from leaving and cancelling the wedding, he convinces her with what he has learnt from his own mistakes, and he helps Jenny to put the ceremony back together. The film ends with Paul and Sandra happily married, and Jenny realises that the treasured photo of herself and Connor was saved by him after all, and they share their true love kiss and dance. Also starring Robert Forster as Sergeant Volkom and Anne Archer as Vonda Volkom. McConaughey is good looking and does his charming and for a while sleazy act fine, Garner is beautiful and likable, and Douglas is a good choice to play the teacher of womanising. It is not a Chrismassy film, and there are no obvious Scrooge and Jacob Marley style characters, the only similarities with the original story are the concept of ghosts and amusing spoof moments, e.g. "you boy, what day is it?", it is a nice enough and reasonably enjoyable romantic comedy. Worth watching!
