Here is the first of two Christy picks for the month of June. She gets an extra one because it's her birthday month. This also marks the second anniversary of the Christy Experiment so yay! On to the evisceration!
This movie was twice as long as it needed to be. Like most long distance relationships, the first half is good, filled with humor and getting to know all the characters. Then it starts to go downhill and you start to miss all the fun times you were having twenty minutes ago. And then it ends in exactly the way everyone knew it would and you wonder why the hell you stuck around so long.
New Yorker Garrett (Justin Long) and Californian Erin (Drew Barrymore) meetcute over a game of Caterpillar and start dating six weeks before Erin's newspaper internship is over. When she goes back to San Francisco, the two decide to keep their relationship going through phone calls, emails, and sporadic visits. Inevitably, the stress of being on two different coasts takes its toll and decisions must be made about their future.
Like I said, the first half of the movie was funny, mostly bolstered by Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as Garrett's two best friends. I was hoping for more, considering the cast includes Jim Gaffigan, Rob Riggle, and Christina Applegate. Otherwise, it's a very typical rom-com with a slightly better-than-average soundtrack.
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