The Proposal Movie Reviewed in Short
I really like romantic comedies as a genre. The latest one that I have seen is The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. As you already know from the previews, Sandra plays the bitchy boss type at a publishing company and it Ryan is her secretary executive assistant. He is gunning for a promotion and she is gunning to step on people everywhere she goes.
Sandra’s character (Margaret) has little feelings for anyone but herself, just like the typical bitchy boss type. Ryan’s character (Andrew) knows how to please her and gets all the crap from her and takes it in stride. When she finds out that she is going to deported, to Canada, because her paperwork was denied, she pulls a nasty little trick on Andrew. She quickly comes up with a plan to get married to Andrew and he only learns of this right at the moment she is telling her bosses this.
As you can probably tell, things get really insane from here. From the INS agent that wants to make sure they are NOT trying to defraud the process to the nutty “Gamy” played perfectly by Betty White. Andrew’s father, played by Craig T Nelson, doesn’t approve of his life in New York and you quickly see that he wants Andrew to take over the family businesses in Alaska. When Andrew says he does NOT want to do so and is happy as a writer/editor, his dad does not take things well.
Needless to say, the “scam” wedding starts to turn into an actual romance and nobody can really tell. Andrew and Margaret get closer when they spend the weekend in Alaska for Gamy’s birthday. In an “all of a sudden” moment the parents want the two to get married THAT weekend at the house. Things get stressful as the family gets prepared for the wedding coming in less than 24 hours.
It gets interesting at this point and I am not going to write any spoilers at this point. I liked it, rated it 4 stars on Facebook Flixster and A+ on Yahoo Movies. A couple of my favorite parts were when “Oscar” from The Office is playing multiple roles, including male dancer, store manager and he is the one marrying the couple. He does a great job. The other funniest part was “the baby maker” blanket than Gamy puts on the bed the couple will “share”. There are ups and downs but in the end I felt good about my relationship and it was a nice “date type movie” in my opinion!
What did you think of The Proposal? I would love to read your comments below!