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So, Ryan Reynolds eh? Van Wilder turned to rom coms quickly, then decided to make himself a massive star by signing on to two, count them, two comic book film projects, after the disastrous Deadpool re-imagining in the Burton sense of the word in Wolverine, he's gonna be Deadpool properly in a few years time, meaning The Proposal will be his last romantic comedy until his career subsides, though he should just stick with frat boy comedies, him in The Hangover would have been 100000x better than Bradley Cooper.

Sandra Bullock is a horrible actress, I mean, annoying, bad and thinks she's far prettier than she could ever be, I swear she's got Miss Piggy's nose. I mean, when she fell down he stairs in Crash I cheered. She survived which was annoying, but she fell down stairs, take what you can in this life. I avoided the film where she finds a magic mailbox and sends horny letters to Ted "Whoah" Anderson Constantine Utah, who takes many red pills to forget the words. I saw Speed because, well, Dennis Hopper gets decapitated and Ted "Whoah" Anderson Constantine Utah drives a bus fast with a gun. Why would you miss that?

But Bullock is a bad actress, she has little comedy knowledge, isn't entertaining and just comes off like a preening bitch.

So The Proposal, a film where contrived situation rom com actress Bullock is gonna be deported to Canada, pretends Reynolds' assistant is getting married to her, settling the issue, but a government agent guy thinks it's all a big ruse, so follows them as they visit his family in Alaska, where lo-and-behold he's not just some poor kid moved to the big city, but has a massive family estate and practically owns their home town.

It's like Chuck and Larry in some of that sense, faked couple, man sniffing around, although here it's not as stupid, annoying, and forgetting the quality drama of some scenes for madcap moments. There are some mad moments, and they don't fit, such as Bullock dancing around a fire with mad 90 year old grandmother singing a shitty rap song as the song plays, comedy is missing here, as is a sequence where Bullock, her again, picks up a dog and tries to barter an Eagle to take the dog not her phone. Yeah.

Fortunately most of those moments are cut by Reynolds' sarcastic quips and charm, making you genuinely laugh and understand the situation.
Some times though the film falls too far into a pre-established genre. They hate each other, inexplicably learn to love each other doesn't really work since she's about 45 and he's only early 30's, and they don't have much in common. The family has issues, all resolved easily, when 90 year old grandmother has a heart attack, but it's a fake one that gets the characters to reconnect, oh how wonderful...ly stupid.

Fortunately even a stupid strip dance from The Office's Oscar aren't too annoying when you have Reynolds' enjoyable nature easing the film along, and even though it relies a lot on him, he makes it effortless.

Malin Akerman has a thankless role as an ex of Reynolds who says he's a good man once, and that's it, that's all she's there for, nothing else, which is odd since she's third on the credits. The music also has a similar issue, it's there for one scene, and then in the background the rest of the time reminding you that it's a silly scene with brass beats. Generic indeed.

The camerawork, however, is far superior, shots of the couple are often distanced, and in close up the director has moving cameras going in opposite directions for each actor, subtle yet clever.

Even though at points it seems like it's going to transcend the Rom-Com genre like Definitely, Maybe did, it ultimately wants girls to laugh at Bullock being a stuck up bitch letting loose, which is the film's weakest points, when Reynolds saves it with being effortlessly awesome. It's a cheap showing kinda flick.

7/10