![]() ![]() ![]() Bridezilla: Sandra, the fiancée of Connor's brother Paul.Brick Joke: That Asian archer who appeared at the beginning of the movie doing some William Telling and then seeminly disappeared? She reappears at the end of the movie shooting the wedding bouquet out of the air.It's caught by Keiko, the Asian archer who hasn't shown up since the beginning of the movie, who shoots it out of the air. Bouquet Toss: Being set around a wedding, the film ends with the bride tossing the bouquet.Perotti is Mead's childhood friend and first crush, and who he finally pairs up with. Back-to-Back Poster: The poster has main characters Connor Mead and Jennifer Perotti in this setup, with Perotti holding the end of a scarf that's around Mead's neck like a leash.The three ghosts share similar appearances with the original descriptions, and the film shares the traditional plot points from the book. Wayne informs Connor that, over the course of the evening, he will be visited by three ghosts who will lead him through his romantic past, present, and future.Īs one can notice from this synopsis, the plot is based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, featuring a wedding day and the day before, rather than the familiar Christmas and Christmas Eve from A Christmas Carol. After Connor delivers a drunken speech at the rehearsal dinner where he says that love isn't real, he's met in the bathroom by the ghost of his uncle Wayne (Douglas), the man who taught Connor everything he knows about seducing women. He attends his brother Paul's wedding, where he becomes reacquainted with Jenny Perotti (Garner), Connor's childhood friend and the only girl who's ever captured his heart. There’s a difference between funny and ha-ha funny and shooting for both only cockblocks everyone.Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a 2009 American romantic comedy film that stars Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Michael Douglas.Ĭonnor Mead (McConaughey) is a famous photographer and serial womanizer. This different tones, different approaches comedy can work on occasion (see Caddyshack), but here it feels like a jumbled mess of crossed swords, alternating intentions and Michael Douglas. Yet, in many scenes, they’re acting opposite Breckin Meyer’s straight man from Road Trip and Matthew McConaughey’s laid-back, charming Matthew McConaughey. Take for example Lacey Chabert and Emma Stone, two beautiful actresses who so zealously buy into their physical tantrums and verbal harangues, they might have fit in nicely in Wedding Crashers or Harold And Kumar. Some seem to be acting in a comedy with some romance, others a romance with a little comedy. It’s never really made clear, and that’s confusing. ![]() Lovable, silly, cute and clichéd at parts, slow, indulgent, misguided and unfunny at others, Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past tries to be a raucous, high-energy fling through a decade of relationships or maybe tries to be a heart-felt, aww-shucks amble through those same relationships. This works, to varying degrees, for both Connor and the audience until all the comfortable notes are struck and the conclusion we’ve all been waiting for rears its good guy head. Of course, he walks back into her life at the wedding of his brother (Breckin Meyer), and after shamelessly hitting on the bride’s mother and every able-bodied woman this side of the Bunny Ranch, Uncle Wayne decides to help in Dickensian fashion by sending in three ghosts with aims on leading Connor back to Jenny and providing a little amusement for himself and the audience. She doesn’t fall for his lines, tells him he can’t come upstairs and makes him fall in love until she lets him upstairs and he lets her go. This one’s name is Jenny ( Jennifer Garner). But for every good rule there’s a better exception and behind every mediocre romantic comedy, there’s a girl who got away. ![]() Young ones, old ones, white ones, black ones, skinny ones and fat ones, Connor Mead loves ’em and leaves ’em all. His dearly departed Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas) taught him from an early age the only foolproof way to permanently mend a broken heart is by continually breaking new ones. Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is a talented photographer by nature, callous womanizer by training. ![]()
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