My wife and I have decided to watch some rom-coms together in the run up to Valentines day. She likes rom-coms and I do not. So at the moment there are a lot of Matthew Mcconaughey movies to get through!
However the danger signs were there when our daughter who had previously seen this film on a plane walked up and left the room muttering that the film was not very good.
The film starts off well enough although we get the plot explained to us very much in the first few minutes. Tina Fey is an admissions officer at the prestigious Princeton College who has to whittle down thousands of applicants each year for the relatively few places available.
She meets an ex student from her past, Paul Rudd who has started a radical new college which contains a promising but troubled student who might be her son who she gave up for adoption.
The trouble with the movie is that it's neither romantic nor a comedy. I understand the problems of an Ivy League university being oversubscribed and they simply must choose people who will be good students and mix with collegiate life at the campus and reject a lot of others. Although Rudd's students do make a point that admissions officers to these type of places tend not to favour people from poor, working class and ethnic minority backgrounds.
The biggest problem I had was that this rather dull, middling film just took a dive by the end. It could not for example tell the difference that 1:00 am, two hours after 11:00 pm cannot be 1:00 pm and seems not to be too clued up about birth certificates.
I realised when the end credits came on that I was actually thinking about suicide during the final part of the movie. This is a deserved bomb.
However the danger signs were there when our daughter who had previously seen this film on a plane walked up and left the room muttering that the film was not very good.
The film starts off well enough although we get the plot explained to us very much in the first few minutes. Tina Fey is an admissions officer at the prestigious Princeton College who has to whittle down thousands of applicants each year for the relatively few places available.
She meets an ex student from her past, Paul Rudd who has started a radical new college which contains a promising but troubled student who might be her son who she gave up for adoption.
The trouble with the movie is that it's neither romantic nor a comedy. I understand the problems of an Ivy League university being oversubscribed and they simply must choose people who will be good students and mix with collegiate life at the campus and reject a lot of others. Although Rudd's students do make a point that admissions officers to these type of places tend not to favour people from poor, working class and ethnic minority backgrounds.
The biggest problem I had was that this rather dull, middling film just took a dive by the end. It could not for example tell the difference that 1:00 am, two hours after 11:00 pm cannot be 1:00 pm and seems not to be too clued up about birth certificates.
I realised when the end credits came on that I was actually thinking about suicide during the final part of the movie. This is a deserved bomb.