Finally saw this, because my bf's friend recommended it highly. Frankly, I was waiting for it to come out on DVD, since I thought it would be awkward to watch for a new couple, as we were when it first came out.
But this particular friend also recommended Little Miss Sunshine to him, which turned out to be his favorite movie, so I guess a rec from him always turns into a must-see.
It was cute! I found it a bit too cute to really resonate with me (the Craig Thompson comic Blankets did a much better job with that) but it was a lot of fun. JGL did a great job with the physicality of the role, especially in the cuts where the timelines shift so quickly and he's bouncing from an emotional high to a soul-crushing low.
And even though it's sorta an anti-rom-com, it still ends with the same message as most movies in the genre, namely reinforcing the idea of "the one," a soulmate that you click with within 5 seconds of meeting him/her. And I don't agree with that, but mostly because my current relationship was the very antithesis of that idea, and I think it would be a waste to dump it just because I didn't believe he was my soulmate 5-seconds after laying eyes on him.
And I'm perfectly content with the way things are.
I loved Paul's quote about his girlfriend though, about how it doesn't matter that his real-life girlfriend is different from his dream girl. "She's better than my dream girl. She's reality." I think that's more in jive with what happens in real life, instead of what the main characters go through.
