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| Blind date anyone? |
Man Up Review – Trust the
Brits to come up with heart-warming rom-com such as this to follow suit of Love
Actually, Notting Hill, Love, Rosie. (If you have yet to watch any of these
movies, I suggest you do!)
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| Are you on Facebook? |
Nancy (Lake Bell) is a
34 year old journalist who is tired of going of blind dates. Meanwhile, Jack
(Simon Pegg) is a 40 year old going thru a divorce. One day while on the way to
her parents 40th wedding anniversary, Nancy comes across a 24 year
old, Jessica who is on her way for a blind date. After a short conversation Jessica
figures Nancy needs to read a self-help book she was reading at the moment
which incidentally was the ‘the hint’ for Jessica to meet Jack. Just a Nancy
was looking for Jessica, Jack mistook Nancy as his blind date. Nancy decides to
play along. They end up spending almost the whole day together. Along the way,
Nancy meets her former high school friend who happens to still be madly ‘obsessed’
about her. Also appearing was Jack’s soon-to-be-x-wife with her new squeeze. Just
as the blind was going well…Nancy finally had to come clean about her identity,
Jack gets pissed but somehow somewhere they figure they are quite compatible
for each other. How will the night end…?
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| Why Facebook....why not bowling instead/ |
Both Bell and Pegg
usually play supporting roles so it was nice to see them finally being featured
in main characters. Their chemistry was simply uplifting and you will find
yourself rooting for their newly formed relationship. Being around the age and situation
as Nancy, I could relate to her theories on things such a love and relationship.
Her ‘list’ had some of my own insecurities as well. At certain point I felt
this movie was made for me to also ‘put myself out there’. As for the guys, I guess
they would also relate to Jack if they were in similar condition. Overall it’s
a pretty decent outlook on how things can change, for better or worse as long
as one is willing to take the chance.
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| Toast for the 'new couple' perhaps...jeng jeng jeng |
With the cinema full
of horror, action and what not movies, it’s lovely to indulge in this kind of
feel good flick. The circumstances maybe will only happen in movies but who
knows when sometimes it might actually happen in real life as well. Till then…perhaps
we should ‘Fuck the past’ and continue looking for our own ‘blue bits’! (Watch
the movie to get this part!)
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