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      Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past   (2009)
 
   
 
Release Date : 11 June 2009
Rating : PG (Sexual References)
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Duration : 101 mins
Director : Mark Waters
Cast : Matthew Mcconaughey, Jennifer Garner, Lacey Chabert, Emma Stone, Christina Milian, Michael Douglas
 
   Synopsis
 
World-famous fashion photographer Colin Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is the prototypical playboy: He’s handsome, confident, and successful…especially with the ladies. He lives life in the fast lane with no emotional connections, no regrets. He seems to have everything he could ever want - everything but love. But Colin doesn’t believe in love; he’s spent a lifetime avoiding it. All that changes when Colin heads home one weekend for his little brother’s wedding where he is confronted with his past…or rather ghosts of his girlfriends past. A Scrooge-like take on the classic romantic comedy, The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a clever, charming and uproariously funny trip down memory lane that’s going to turn Colin Mead’s world upside down.

 
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   Review   by Vernon Chan
Take A Christmas Carol, turn it into a romantic comedy, and you have Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. In this retelling of the well-worn classic (whose adaptations and deformations are as hoary and tired as the classic itself), Matthew McConaughey plays the Scrooge character as a cad and womaniser who humbugs at the idea of Love, and sees his life-long mission to set Olympic records for wooing, bedding, and leaving women in succession.

This being a romantic comedy, he will end up falling disgustingly in lurve with his greatest critic and long-term crush, and this being a Dickens adaptation, he will experience an intervention from a team led by his deceased mentor.

Look, it's not a bad concept and the plot practically writes itself. So you have to wonder what took them so long to get this movie off the ground.

It could be the script – the Jon Lucas-Scott Moore team is hardly the epitome of brilliant screenwriting, and it shows in how much they messed up this a no-brainer of a story idea. There’s something very wrong, for instance, with how unbelievable, dislikeable, and off-putting a “Mr Sex On Legs” character turns out to be.

Then again, it could be Matthew McConaughey himself, or his legendary lack of chemistry with any female co-star.

On the whole, this movie has some genuinely funny lines and gags that are spaced out too far apart between some seriously tedious exposition, and boasts a strong and quirky supporting cast (notably Michael Douglas as the old cad) whose efforts are eclipsed by the blandness of the leading actors. Watch this if you're the type who just laughs along anyway.