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The Proposal Here’s
a question for you: How many
unfunny comedies can you see in one week? So far I’ve seen two, which is
probably more than you have; after all, you’re not a critic,
right? You can pick and choose
your comedies anytime you want.
But me? I’ve seen “Year
One,” with Jack Black and Michael Cera; and
“The Proposal,” with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. Apart from the fact that Bullock is 46
and Reynolds is just 33, they certainly seem like a couple made in heaven. After all, she is his boss at a publishing
company and he is what used to be called a secretary – now, of course,
an Administrative Assistant. She
wears 6-inch heels and orders him around – shades of “The Devil
Wears Prada” – but in the film she has neglected to fill out her U.S.Visa extension form and is about to be deported to
her home in Canada unless she can marry someone within 24 hours. Do
you get the wit here? She will
marry Ryan Reynolds, then divorce him after she gets
permanent residence here. Is that
funny? Well, not to me, but then
I probably don’t have a sense of humor. Anyway, they must go to visit his
family, who happens to live in Sitka, Alaska. Is that also funny? I’m only asking. Then they meet his mother, Mary
Steenburgen, his father, Craig T. Nelson, and Gammy Betty White (that’s
grandmother, as in Annie Hall, to you), all of whom are excited about the
wedding. Gammy even does a white
version of a Tlingit dance, which Bullock joins in on. Another funny moment which was lost on
me. And
then she decides she can’t go through with it and makes a speech at the
wedding ceremony, which of course means that Ryan truly loves her and she
truly loves him, and he pursues her from Sitka to New York, where – oh,
that would be giving it away, wouldn’t it. And I know you wouldn’t want
that, would you? |