Though, I wasn't really a fan of the original, it did have the greatest comic drunk in Dudley Moore. This however, proves that funny drunks can only be portrayed on The Simpsons. It's also a little sad to see Helen Mirren in this kind of material. She actually said on the Blu-Ray Extras that she thought the director was good because he let the actors ad-lib a lot. What the hell is that? As it looks to me, this film chucked out all that supposedly ad-libbed material and made this into the standard romantic comedy. There are a few scenes with witty banter between Brand's Arthur and Greta Gerwig's Naomi but the rest is a crashing bore.
Another thing is the storyline about the arranged marriage. The mother's motivation for fixing Arthure up with the Jennifer Garner character feels absolutely false. She would almost immediately get him to be a worse drunk than he was before.
As for the comedy, there is absolutely not a single line that gives you more than a mild chuckle. I don't know why the usually reliant Luis Guzman dropped his heavy accent here either. Yes, he does play virtually the same guy every film he's in but I almost missed it here. Here he just seems to waiting to cash in.
I don't usually give all out negative comments like this one, but this film looks like it wasted a huge amount of money to remake a film that wasn't that good in the first place. To the director: Please try to come up with an original at some point and to the actors: don't give praise to a director who lets you loose and then makes you boring.
Another thing is the storyline about the arranged marriage. The mother's motivation for fixing Arthure up with the Jennifer Garner character feels absolutely false. She would almost immediately get him to be a worse drunk than he was before.
As for the comedy, there is absolutely not a single line that gives you more than a mild chuckle. I don't know why the usually reliant Luis Guzman dropped his heavy accent here either. Yes, he does play virtually the same guy every film he's in but I almost missed it here. Here he just seems to waiting to cash in.
I don't usually give all out negative comments like this one, but this film looks like it wasted a huge amount of money to remake a film that wasn't that good in the first place. To the director: Please try to come up with an original at some point and to the actors: don't give praise to a director who lets you loose and then makes you boring.