Review of The Pill

The Pill (2011)
1/10
What made anyone think this movie was worth making
3 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The plot is ridiculous. That is the funniest part of the movie - the stupid sequence of circumstances. I certainly don't remember laughing at any lines. The characters are not likable at all. As for Fred, if his lips are moving he is lying. And his live-in girlfriend is out of town, so he has a one night stand. He spends almost all of the movie manipulating Mindy so she won't be pregnant. And all this time spent with Mindy is while his live-in girlfriend is texting him constantly that she is on the way home. Mindy is just plain nutty and in my opinion not too bright. She doesn't care that she had unprotected sex neither fearing STD's nor that it took place right in the middle of her fertile cycle. She apparently recently had sex with another man not too long prior to Fred because a used condom is on top of the trash in her bathroom. Apparently she isn't entirely truthful either. But Mindy might be a little likable in a sweet, affectionate sort of way. Fred's live-in girlfriend is even meaner than Fred, but her screen time is so much less than either of the other two, she really had to pour it on in the time she had to display her mean and manipulative side. The writers seem to have no problem with a woman taking sex from a man with either no consent, or half-hearted consent. They also can't seem to find any funny dialogue.

I only watched this movie and stuck with it because I like Rachel Boston. Poor woman had little to work with in this script and got to show very little of her usual sunny disposition. There were a few scenes of the two people "having fun", but Rachel had to try too hard to make that impression and it really didn't work very well. As for Noah Bean, he had only one mode through the entire film and it wasn't happy.

As another person commented, usually a Romantic comedy has romance. Not this one. Sex, yes but with clothes on, and no romance.
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