![]() ![]() So when Connor meets up with the ghost of his Uncle Wayne, an old-school player who taught him everything he knows about scamming but now insists his life was empty without love, he resists but eventually succumbs when old memories are stirred. Forced to return to his childhood home of Newport, R.I., to see brother Paul (Breckin Meyer) get married, Connor uses the opportunity to try to bed more women (including the bride’s mother, played by a sexy, underused Anne Archer).īut he also finds himself experiencing unexpected, unfinished feelings for childhood friend and former flame Jenny (Garner in a thankless straight-woman role) who seems too smart and accomplished to let someone vapid like Connor still tug at her. But it’s never particularly funny because it takes such an insultingly limited and cliched view of what constitutes female sexual independence.Ĭonnor doesn’t have much more respect for his younger brother’s fiancee (Lacey Chabert as a squeaky control-freak) or her three bridesmaids, two of whom he’s already screwed. It’s an ongoing gag: Some of them have dated him for two days or an hour. Which brings us to one of the chief flaws of “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” – all the women, except Garner’s character, are malleable sluts willing not only to jump into bed with Connor (or do it in an airplane bathroom or on top of a car), they’re also stupid enough to fall in love with him. How he scores with his cheesy pickup lines is baffling perhaps he blinds them into submission with the impossible whiteness of his teeth. When we first meet Connor in his Manhattan photo studio, he’s propositioning his lingerie-clad models later, he’ll break up with three women simultaneously by video conference while his latest conquest (R&B singer Christina Milian) waits on the couch. You can count the jokes that work on one hand the rest is pratfalls and predictability. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who also were behind the overbearing “Four Christmases,” wrote the screenplay Mark Waters, who’s enjoyed better material with the Tina Fey-scripted “Mean Girls” and the 2003 remake of “Freaky Friday,” directs. ![]() ![]() Oh, no – this is a wholly creative enterprise. ![]()
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