Worth Your Valuable Time

Most romantic comedies suck ass. They're usually too-cute, they often involve mistaken identities and you're more than likely going to see Meg Ryan jump around in her pajamas to a Motown-era oldie, even if she's not in the movie. But more than anything else, they're not real. Nobody behaves in rom-coms like normal people behave in real life; in fact, as a general rule, they behave like complete idiots.

Which is why it's refreshing to see a romantic comedy come along that gives that rule a healthy kick in the balls. Trust the Man is about two couples who are both having relationship troubles and how they try, fail, try again, and continue to keep trying to fix their messy lives. It's very funny, it's got a stellar cast (including Mulder!!!) and, above all, it's real. Or at least more real than anything that happened in Failure to Launch, which, no, I didn't technically see. However, my theory on that is that I don't need to actually see a car accident involving a drunk truck driver and a school bus full of handicapped kids to know the extent of the carnage.*

So, yes, Trust the Man: Worth your valuable time.

*In this analogy, Drunk Truck Driver = Matthew McConaughey and School Bus Full of Handicapped Kids = Sara Jessica Parker, both for obvious reasons.