The Accidental Husband

I really have no idea why I watched this movie. My friend had it and it was a chick flick so I naturally I couldn't resist. I can believe most plots in chick flick movies but for some reason the story and inconsistencies really bothered me. Uma Thurman plays a relationship advice radio person who in the beginning scene advises a caller that her fiancee might not be right for her. The fiancee is played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. He was in P.S I Love You. So he hears the whole conversation on the radio with his co-workers. He is a fireman. Obviously he is pretty mad this random lady could end his relationship, even though they must not have had a very strong one to begin with seeing as how she was seeking radio advice. To punish her, he has some techno kid he knows break into some database legal thing and make a marriage license so that they are legally married. This way she is punished because she really is engaged to Colin Firth, who incidentally is very angry when he finds out she is married. The rest of the plot doesn't really make that much sense. Spoiler alert they do fall in love. The rest of the movie is a bunch of random scenes that don't make logical sense as to what the characters are doing. For example, when Thurman first confronts her actual husband, which I am not entirely sure that document would hold up in court, he tricks her into getting drunk by making fun of her for not drinking with the fireman guys. Her life begins to spiral apart. He then finds her at work where he walks with her to the cake tasting. Makes a complete fool of himself with eating all of the cake. These two old ladies, however, love him and ask about how they met. This whole elaborate story of meeting could be avoided by saying yeah we are not engaged, he's just helping me or something like that. What really bothered me about this scene was that it didn't make sense why these two old women, already married to their respective husbands were at a wedding cake tasting place. They were like just eating a slice of cake and the beginning of the scene showed that the shop was only a wedding cake place.

Oh and of course as they end up together, Colin Firth easily lets her go because he can see that he lost her. Yea that would really happen. How can you be engaged to someone else, they had been dating for years, living together, and she easily ditched him. Oh and he was pretty casual about it. Of course they waited until the wedding to do so, which is just rude to all of those guests who came and brought presents. Oh and the fireman was really angry when he lost his fiancee at the beginning of the movie because she was the love of his life. But he got over that loss just fine.

I believed the premise of When in Rome easier. And that movie involved a plot where a woman steals coins from a fountain and those men who through the coins fall madly in love with her and stalk her in New York City. I guess movies where characters are in love with people and then ditch them right before the wedding bothers me. At least in this one the two dumpees didn't end up together because those endings are annoying as well.