Crazy,Stupid,Love.

Crazy,Stupid,Love

I hope you all had a beautiful Christmas!
So as the rom-com freak I am, I was flicking through the movie channels last night when i found “Crazy,Stupid,Love.” And I thought ‘Hmm, there’s one I haven’t watched yet.’ So I did, and I loved it. It was shocking, un-predictable, funny, cute, and sweet, I thought it was fantastic.

The synopsis of the movie reads: At forty something, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his perfect life quickly unravels. The hapless Cal is taken on as wingman and protégé to handsome, thirty something player Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). In an effort to help Cal get over his wife and start living his life, Jacob opens Cal's eyes to the many options before him: flirty women, manly drinks and a sense of style that can't be found at Supercuts or The Gap. But despite Cal's makeover and his many new conquests, the one thing that can't be made over is his heart, which seems to keep leading him back to where he began.

I thought the funniest part of the movie which wasn’t mentioned in the synopsis is the way Cal’s little son (Robbie) who’s 13years old carried a huge crush for his babysitter Jessica. It was so bloody funny when she walked in on him... ‘Doing things to himself’ and he later said that he thought of her when he did it! But sadly Jessica nursed her own giant crush on Robbie’s dad. The 17year old even took naked photos of her to send to Cal, which at the end of the movie she gave to Robbie as a ‘graduation present’. It cracked me up.

My next favourite funny part was when David, Cal, Jacob, and Jessica’s dad all fought each other in the garden, it was class. They all had something against each other because they didn’t have a full understanding of what actually happened.

I thought Hannah and Jacob’s relationship was so cute! I love how she went back to his apartment and the whole dirty dancing thing was sooooooo cute. I liked how they didn’t just ‘bang’ they stayed up all night talking and embracing each other’s company, as Hannah said the ‘PG 13 version’ it was kind of predictable they’d end up together but I still liked it. And when Jacob (Ryan Gosling) took his shirt off! Wow. Yes please!

What wasn’t predictable is that Hannah turned out to be Cal’s daughter. I loved that twist. How Jacob had spend the last few weeks mentoring middle-aged Cal on how to connect with his man-hood and move on from his wife with his womanising ways, and then he fell in love with his daughter! Brilliant.

And finally Cal and Emily. I love how it started off with her wanting a divorce, progressed onto the revelation of her sleeping with someone else, then him sleeping with his son’s English teacher and 8 other women, and finally back around to them falling in love all over again.  Again, very predictable, but still beautiful. I think that’s what I love about rom-coms the predictability of a happy ending.