September 16, 2007
This is a bit fluffy, but it is extremely funny, and once you've got over the fundamental implausibility of Simon Pegg's hopeless and not particularly attractive loser of a character ever getting to the point where he could be jilting Thandie Newton at the altar and abandoning their unborn child, it's a very human and cockle-warming story. I'd say Thandie has now definitely taken over from Kristin Scott-Thomas as the most beautiful woman in the world, but by the end of the movie you are actually convinced that she could prefer gingery, unfit, unreliable Simon to darkly gorgeous hunk Hank Azaria as her new rich American boyfriend Whit. The scene in which Azaria intimidates Pegg in the locker room at the gym is excruciatingly funny. There is also brilliant support from Dylan Moran as Thandie's eccentric Irish cousin and Pegg's best mate Gordon, and the tiny scrap who played Pegg's little boy. Do not look for profundity - but it's nicely done. It will make you feel good, so go see it!