The Proposal stars Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy neither romantic or comedic. He's assistant to her hard charging NYC book editor. She's a ballbuster. He's doing it for the chance to break into the literary world. She's doing it because she has no family. They need to marry, so that she isn't deported. Ha. Ha. Ha.

That's a tired cliche of a gag if I ever saw one.

And the movie is tired. I didn't really laugh. The romance was a given and hard to believe. Ryan Reynolds is not given enough to do as a "Ryan Reynolds" roll. No smart mouthing or glib commenting. Just stand there and let Sandra Bullock be the movie's driving force. She couldn't be, or at least I couldn't accept her as it. Come on, it's Ryan Reynolds you want to see not Sandra Bullock. And I'm a guy. I wonder what the girls who've seen it think.

I'm all for tsundere goodness, but Sandra Bullock could not capture it. She's mean, but you couldn't have told me she had a caring side. Only the writers could do that, and they shoe horned it in to fit the happy ending.

Blech.

2 of 5 stars.

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