Needless to say, this story revolves around Valentine's Day; how proposals go awry, how little boys send flowers to their pretty teachers because they think it's love, how ugly truths surface and threaten to break couples apart, how some people hate V day to death, how best friends could possibly make the best couples... While it's a huge bonus to have so many contemporary big names at the helm, it's the love story between Grandma Estelle (played by Shirley MacLaine) and Granddad Edgar (played by Hector Elizondo) that made the movie bucks worthwhile. It taught a great lesson of love; when you love someone, it's about loving not just the nice things about him/her, but also the not-so-nice things. That's what makes love so priceless, so unrequitted and so unconditional. And I liked it when Reed (Ashton Kutcher) asked his buddy Alphoso (George Lopez) how he had managed to stay in a happy marriage, Alphoso simply answered, "It's simple. I married my best friend." Sweeeeeeeeet. Oh, and the Taylors were simply redundant in the film. I'm serious. No value added, no sweet moments (unless you consider that plastic-mannequin, face-sucking action sweet. pui.), nothing. And it doesn't help when your on/off-screen girlfriend trots around like a giraffe with quirky dance moves. Seriously, can they release a DVD version where they're snipped out?
And I don't feel like going back to school. At all.
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