![]() McConaughey can lay on the oily charm with the best of them, as can Douglas, who of course nails it. ![]() It all worked, and doesn't apologize for it. Sure, it's silly, but wasn't Scrooge also? But, I'll be damned if the vision of Connor's funeral didn't choke me up. Yes, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a tearjerker romantic comedy with no qualms about being exactly what it is. "No one will miss you," he tells Connor, who like Wayne once thought he could live forever as a guy who can bounce from woman to woman without feeling anything. Connor thought Uncle Wayne was the coolest, but Wayne lets him in on a little secret: Years of womanizing led to a lonely life and an even lonelier afterlife. He appears to Connor as a ghost warning Connor of the pending spirits' visits and pleading with him to see the error of his ways. Uncle Wayne, by the way, is the Jacob Marley of the movie. ![]() Connor learned the lessons all too well, and when true love stares him in the face in the form of Jenny (Garner), the girl he's loved all his life, he shuns her for fear of being hurt. The girl he had a crush on danced and made out with another guy at a school dance, so his Uncle Wayne (Douglas), teaches him the ways of being a lounge lizard/lothario so Connor would never have to be brokenhearted anymore. He has a pleasant, superficial personality which masks emotional scars from his teenage years. Yes, Connor is a shallow womanizer who hits on the mother of the bride the night before his younger brother's wedding (which he basically decries as humbug), but he isn't so far gone that he's irredeemable. The movie proudly borrows from A Christmas Carol and makes Connor its Scrooge, only he isn't against Christmas, just the idea of monogamy and marriage. At least Connor Mead (McConaughey), the proudly single, lecherous ladies' man in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is young enough to reap the benefits of his newfound identity once the aforementioned ghosts make him see the error of his ways. ![]() The saddest part of the happy ending of A Christmas Carol is that Scrooge had wasted a lot of years being a prick and might be too old to truly enjoy his newly acquired happiness. Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Emma Stone, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert ![]()
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