Margaret(Sandra Bullock) is the uptight, toughie editor that everyone hates. We know this because she rarely smiles, fires people at will and has her staff scrambling out of her way when she walks the floor. Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) is the hardworking wimpy assistant to Bullock's Margaret. We know this because he doesn't go on vacations and will cancel grandma's 90th party for work. Obviously, these two are about to fall in love. Well, not after all the ridiculous and funny sequence of events they'd have to go through so that they'd realize they really do like each other after all.
Margaret, a Canadian, risks losing her job to a man she just fired when her company finds out that she's an illegal migrant. And so she ends up having a fake engagement with Andrew who was there at the right place, at the right time. Then they have to fly to Sitka, Alaska to meet Andrew's lovely, lovable family. And there she falls in love with the overwhelmingly doting family and Andrew, ofcourse.
This all sounds tired and trite on paper. Heck, it sounds a bit like another Bullock movie: While you were sleeping. But it's the little accents and details - an eagle swooping in to eat a puppy, a 90 year old grandma dancing and chanting in the forest - and the actors' performances that give this movie enough leg, and heart, to stand strong.
Sandra Bullock has always been very charming in her movies. She stutters when she's nervous, she has little cute quirks, she can be elegant and clumsy at the same time and undoubtedly, she's very beautiful. And together with Ryan Reynolds, she charms us off our feet, making us sit through and even enjoy a predictable romantic comedy movie.
I give this movie a B.
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