How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days

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Romantic comedies are not the kind of film I tend to seek out, but LNR suggested it and it seemed like a good idea at the time. And it wasn't a bad idea; it was fun even if bits of it were rather predictable (you just know what the conclusion of this kind of film is going to be). If you really want to know the plot, I'm sure you can work most of it out from a trailer.

The conspiring Judys were marvellous, and it would have been good to see more of them, but I suppose you can't risk developing the nasty characters too much or they become either sympathetic or caricatures. The posh dinner scene was ... odd, but correctly timed: much longer and I'd have been cringing.

Two criticisms, which perhaps are more fairly directed at the traer rather than this film in particular; firstly the soft focus to signal "here comes a soppy bit" was completely unnecessary and distracting, and secondly even the nice people fit their gender stereotypes just a little too slavishly - making the point where the man goes off to change a nappy and the woman to play a card game involving lots of swearing jar rather than (as looks to have been intended) just advance the plot through the contrast.