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\nSo most of you might be asking: “What?? A Romantic Comedy, what have you done with the real Cinema Cocoa??”<\/div>\n

Simply put, a relentless boss forces her assistant into marriage so that she can avoid being deported to Canada for a year and lose her business standing. They hate each other, but does this bribe become more than she can handle?
\nIts a romantic comedy, of course it does!<\/p>\n

I don’t rightly know why I was so compelled to see this, but it would be the premise mostly. The idea of a hard, emotionally-void business woman finding herself backed into such a corner she makes the snap decision to marry her assistant, an assistant who wants nothing more than the chance to take her down several pegs.<\/p>\n

In this regard, the film succeeds. I really enjoyed the opening act and much of the second. Their office staff being in constant contact so they can message each other whenever Sandra Bullock’s cold-hearted Margaret enters the room; “the witch is on her broom”. Ryan Reynolds does well too as Andrew, a man at the end of his tether, reveling in switching the bribery around from time to time. It was what I was expecting it to be, but as such it was entertaining!<\/p>\n

Then of course… the film develops the characters, oh, and they start having real feelings for each other, etc etc. There are some weird side-tracks in the second act when they go to Andrew’s family’s home in Alaska, for example Margaret finding his grandmother doing a tribal dance in the forest… What, what am I seeing?
\nA situation with Sandra Bullock, a small dog and an eagle <\/i>was priceless though.<\/p>\n

People wonder why I don’t normally watch “Rom-Coms”, and it is because they are often ridiculously predictable, and there’s no denying this film is the same. I know, action\/sci-fi films are predictable in their own ways, but these sorts of movies don’t have the luxury of being blatantly fictional.
\nOh, there’s a wedding… hmm, I bet all my money it doesn’t go smoothly. These people aren’t leaving this chapel happy.
\nThere will be a crushing reality moment where our lovers are separated, but heroically our man will run, climb, struggle through crowds in the dying minutes of the film to fix everything.<\/p>\n

Yep, The Proposal<\/i> isn’t a film I’m likely to watch again, but I am glad I bothered to give it a go. It is a short, amusing waste of time, and most importantly, I could buy into these two actors playing these roles.<\/p>\n

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\nAdditional Marshmallows: Another thing about Rom-Coms, look at that bland, uninteresting poster! Seriously, did a robot design that? (and yeah, I will say the same about Skyfall<\/i>‘s marketing for the same reasons!)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So most of you might be asking: “What?? A Romantic Comedy, what have you done with the real Cinema Cocoa??” Simply put, a relentless boss forces her assistant into marriage so that she can avoid being deported to Canada for a year and lose her business standing. They hate each other, but does this bribe… <\/p>\n

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