Published on: 7th June, 2009
Release:
June 19 2009, Touchstone Pictures (Disney).
Director:
Anne Fletcher, Producer: Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman, Screenwriter: Peter Chiarelli, Jennifer Kirby.
Cast:
Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Malin Akerman, Craig T.Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Denis O’Hare, Betty White.
Genre:
Comedy
Sandra Bullock effortlessly plays Margaret, the spritely, bullock-busting, Canadian book editor, with the propensity of jet fuel, an effectual and a hyperactive slave driver. Margaret is a strict adherent of punctuality and time, forever setting high standards and raising the bar for others. The one to bear the maximum brunt of this method madness is her assistant, Andrew played by Ryan Reynolds, who gets along with his boss like chalk and cheese.
When faced with woes of inescapable expatriation to her native place, Canada, Margaret with her split-fired thought process, proclaims to the immigration officials about her engagement to her assistant Andrew who is initially taken aback by this sudden change of events. To stay in the good books of his cunning boss, Andrew eventually agrees to keep up the act after he lays down his reservations which involve her to pay a visit to his parental home in Alaska.
As they head off on the trip to Alaska, to have a rendez-vous with Andrew’s foible family, Margaret, who is always used to taking to the driver’s seat, finds herself in many clammy situations including the one that involves Andrew’s in-your-face, sharp toned grandma, Betty White who inappropriately feels up Margaret and nudges them into having a public lip-lock, which they silently detest.
With whirlwind like events that test the couple’s patience and wit, they unwillingly swear to stay put with their tricky plan. This journey through unanticipated places and juncture sees them strangely drawn to each other.
Bullocks, definitely seems to pose great assets even after crossing her glorious 30’s, quite evident with by the full frontal shot involving Andrew and her.
The unlikely couple are literally knocked off their socks, when they realize the grand scale in which Andrews parents have set up their surprise wedding. How, they manage to maintain their sanity in these crazed turn of events is to seen on giant screens.
This insightful, humorous flick is choreographer-turned-director, Anne’s latest venture after his last movie ’27 dresses’. Sandra Bullock seems to have effectually taken the jesting plunge once again since her last comic flick ‘Two Weeks Notice’ in 2002.
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