What makes it different from others?

Disturbing yet enthralling

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Joel and Molly are on a double date with their friends Kyle and Karen. After Kyle tells them a story about how he and Karen disagree on the Sunday paper, they ask Joel and Molly how they met. They describe their relationship as something like a romantic comedy. Joel is the typical leading man that is attractive without being threatening, and Molly is a quirky and klutzy woman. Their relationship, as most romantic comedies do, begins in New York City.......This is one of those films that you shouldn't like, it shouldn't work, but for some reason, it's a barrel of laughs from start to finish.The film is basically a satire of basically all the romantic comedies made from 1989 to present, but it most notably references You've Got Mail, Forget Paris, and When Harry Met Sally. And for the most part, the film gets it right.The cast are great, Rudd is as likable as he ever is and has great chemistry with Poehler, and at times, they are much better than the material, so they make the film that little bit better than it should be.But every now and again, the movie decides to go full spoof rather than satire, and this is when the film makes you cringe rather than smile. The satirical references to the genre they are mocking are spot on and close to genius, but the sight gags just don't work, just like spoofs haven't worked since the last Naked Gun movie, so luckily they don't use them too often.The end of the film is completely bonkers, featuring Michael Shannon with a sword, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan probably being the coolest he ever will be.So the film works, it really shouldn't, but the cast are so likable, they should have toned down the spoof parts though.

I rarely stir myself to write reviews on here but the mega-low IMDb score has forced my hand, because this film is funny. Laugh-out-loud funny, not just for part of the time, but consistently, brilliantly funny. There are some extremely odd comments on here, with people seeming not to get the joke at all, and I have to say I find that perplexing. From minute one it tears into every rom-com cliché with glee. It is to the romantic comedy what The Naked Gun is to the detective drama, and on a first viewing I found it almost as funny. It helps that the leads are naturally very likable, very comedically gifted actors. I've been a fan of Rudd's for a long time and Poehler matches him here. Some of the targets they are shooting at are very soft ones (poking ANY fun at When Harry Met Sally will always leave you standing on very thin ice), and there are a few budget restrictions which keep it from being a movie classic - some folk have rightly pointed out that it is basically a series of sketches - but it IS the funniest film I have seen in a year, and as it's a comedy and that's kind of its job, I feel obliged to gift it a slightly inflated 9 out of 10. A hoot.

For a movie that has a ton of very funny people, this is not a very funny film. The filmmaker seems to think repeating the clichés of a RomCom and winking sidelong at the audience makes the old clichés funny but really it doesn't. They're still tired and worn out clichés that make this difficult to sit through without getting bored. That is not good satire! I agree, it's difficult to send up a genre: Airplane and Galaxy Quest can't be made everyday. But I feel like this film is more in the same vein as the nth Scary Movie or Not Another Teen Movie: not worth the time to watch them. It's too bad because a lot of good talent goes to waste here.

I am sorry to have to write a review of a bomb starring two of my favorite comic actors, Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler. However, I feel I owe this to humanity. Perhaps I can prevent someone else from wasting one precious minute of their lives on this movie. Even on Netflix.If this was meant as farce, it failed epically. Farce entails an overblown portrayal of real situations and people. Unfortunately, the characters in this picture are all too real in today's Manhattan. And they are not funny in a country where the rich are richer at the expense of the not-rich. Manhattan and chic Brooklyn are not funny. They represent what is increasingly wrong with the country. This just makes this movie seem callously ignorant.So, I would group this film with bad comedies about Germany in the 1930s. Yes, it is that bad. Bad writing, uncomfortable acting and plastic staging. If the actors were embarrassed, it would be to their credit. Basically, this movie could be fixed up and marketed as a horror version of "Sex In The City".