What dreadfully bad stuff. This remake is a wholesale rip off of "Real Men", passing through "True Lies", sandwiched beneath "Father of the Bride" and "Meet the Parents".
Jammed into this is every imaginable date movie cliché, like so much mortar between bricks. There's barely any time allotted for the equation to register (couple is betrothed, a perceived sexual wandering drives them apart, but they are reconciled so we can cheer).
It exists only as an excuse for Douglas to act half his age...something he's doing in real life, too. Brooks is just a cipher here - he can't quite implant the meta narrative of looking at all of this as a joke.
The climax resolves through "Thelma and Louise" crossed with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
There is more or less exactly zero cinematic value here...not a single original thought, word or deed to be found, either.
Jammed into this is every imaginable date movie cliché, like so much mortar between bricks. There's barely any time allotted for the equation to register (couple is betrothed, a perceived sexual wandering drives them apart, but they are reconciled so we can cheer).
It exists only as an excuse for Douglas to act half his age...something he's doing in real life, too. Brooks is just a cipher here - he can't quite implant the meta narrative of looking at all of this as a joke.
The climax resolves through "Thelma and Louise" crossed with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
There is more or less exactly zero cinematic value here...not a single original thought, word or deed to be found, either.