You can't always run from your past
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
By Rachelyn Gordon
Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Emma Stone
Official website: http://www.ghostsofgirlfriendspastmovie.com/
He is the bachelor of all bachelors. With his smoother than butter moves and sweeter than syrup talk, Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) always finds himself with a different pair of pins of the toned, waxed kind (usually belonging to a model) wrapped around his waist every night.
Woe to whoever falls in love with this photographer living the high life, for it'll be an experience as enticing as sticking your arm into a basin filled with needles.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a romantic comedy. As with every other film in the same genre, the antagonist comes in the form of a man cursed with an emotional stability of a five year old, but he's so gorgeous that he can almost be forgiven. This is also where all similarities end.
Unlike its counterparts, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past actually manages to rise above its cookie-cutter plot with its witty script. Clever anecdotes and sharp comeback lines written for characters, especially McConaughey's Connor, is redeemed from cheesiness and his delivery is so convincing that you'll have to exercise restraint to keep from cursing his screen character out loud.
Do look out for Michael Douglas' appearances, as fleeting as they may be, his portrayal of the notorious Uncle Wayne is full of punch and entertainment value.
The protagonists in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past interestingly come in the form of ghosts, representing Connor Mead's past, present and future ex-girlfriends. With their 80's neon tights, prim, uptight working class attitudes and mysterious, unknown auras, they bring him through the thousands of beds he has left empty and cold the morning after, forcing this player to take a good, hard look at his game and realize that it has ultimately made him a lonely man.
Will Connor Mead give up the chase of short, tight skirts to settle for one? Ultimately, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a feel good romantic film that's not to be lightly dismissed as just another run-of-the-mill chick flick.
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