If you haven't seen it, it's your classic love story. Boy and girl are getting married and girl is pregnant. Girl is much, much more attractive than boy. Boy jilts (there's a 25-cent word) girl at altar. Boy later realizes that he's made a mistake (duh!).
However, now 5 years later, boy is overweight and new boy with old fiance is Hank Azaria, who is pretty fit. Boy decides to run a marathon in order to get the girl back.
SPOILER ALERT. Turn back if you haven't seen the movie and can't guess how it ends. I know, of course you can figure out how it ends.
Now here's what I like about this movie, outside of its comedic points. The reward for finishing a marathon is that you get the girl of your dreams. If that were true in real life, I think everyone would be ridiculously fit and running marathons.
Although, if that were true, there'd be a lot of girls and guys waiting at the finish line and it would probably get really jumbled up at the end. I mean, the finish line is already pretty packed to begin with, and then to have to add the person of your dreams? Geez, that would get a bit unweildy.
That said, and odd tangent notwithstanding, I enjoyed the movie. It moved quick and was well written. It also hit the minimum Hank Azaria quotient that I need in all of my movies, that was important.
6 comments:
I looooove this movie!
My husband and I watched this and he said at the end that he could finally understand why people ran marathons. But he's already got me?
Surprisingly, I enjoyed this movie. Usually I don't care for sappy romantic comedies but this one, probably because of the marathon running aspect, was quite funny.
I still need to see it. Thanks for the review.
Thanks also for leaving the suggestion for Take It And Run Thursday. Good idea!
I loved this movie! The blister scene kind of gave me the heebie jeebies though!
I watched this movie the day before my marathon and loved it!
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