Daily Chick Flick: The Accidental Husband
at Monday, May 18, 2009
Last week finished moderately well in regards to watching a few chick flicks that didn't completely suck. Relatively speaking that is. My pseudo-success of the week past hardly matters anymore, or at least won't after I've obliterated the remaining happy feelings from it with today's review. Admittedly, I should have realized something was up when I stumbled across a newer chick flick that I never heard of, called The Accidental Husband.I can only imagine that it was unheard of because its creators, along with the actors who starred in it, have been using their vast fortunes to bury any shred of evidence that it was ever made. That much I could understand. If the Phantom Zone from Superman II were a real thing, no doubt it would be placed in there along with Star Trek: Generations and Jennifer Lopez.
Everyone and everything shares equal blame in this movie. The actors stunk it up all over the place. The plot was a joke. There was never any real tension to hold onto. The two main characters were kind of boorish assholes. To top it all off, the story didn't even make sense. In it, this guy's fiance dumps him over the advice of a radio talk show host, so he has his teenage neighbor change the municipal records to say that they are married, hoping to wreck her upcoming wedding plans as vengeance. I suppose such a hack might be possible, but there's no way it would stick. The entire impetus of this movie is one big joke. I actually think -- kill me now -- that I would have rather watched an hour and a half of Dane Cook stand-up than this. Ugh. Yeah OK, probably not.
It does make you start to wonder though, where exactly is that line is drawn? In this real, hyperbole-free life, what would I do to get out of watching another film as bad as The Accidental Husband? Well here's a chance for us to sort it out, in real life. This Friday I'll pull down the weekly sidebar poll a few days early, then re-post it with four not-so-fun things I'm willing to do in place of watching yet another shitty movie. Between now and Friday I encourage you to submit things you'd consider just as painful for me as sitting through a chick flick. If no sparkling gems can be mined from the comments section, here are the four options I'm going with:
- Attach and then, one-by-one, yank 15 binder clips off of my face
- Squeeze an entire (6-8 oz.) bottle of yellow mustard into my mouth and swallow it
- Have Christie give me a makeover, then post the resulting glamour shot as my Facebook profile picture for one full week
- Let my son hit me in the balls with his toy lightsaber or a whiffle bat
Regarding The Accidental Husband, I'm not sure what's left to be said, other than don't ever watch it. Take that 87 minutes and go plant a tree or read to underprivileged children. Hell, go kick a puppy and rob a convenience store if you have to. Once they hear your reason, all will surely be forgiven. This one gets 5 pink tacos, plus Uma Thurman's now worthless SAG card.







May 18, 2009 7:17 AM
I've never heard of this either. And I will indeed stay away from it.
How about plucking all your pubic hairs out with a pair of tweezers?
May 18, 2009 7:25 AM
Who picked this? My God!
May 18, 2009 8:13 AM
I'd go for the glamour makeover, but you have to use it as your twitter photo too
May 18, 2009 8:26 AM
Jay is giving up? There's only 12 more days to go. Is watching chick flicks turning you into a pussy? ;)
May 18, 2009 10:43 AM
I say do every single one, have the incident taped and post the movie on your blog, so we can all enjoy the process.
Don't rob us of our fun!!!
May 18, 2009 12:19 PM
I've never heard of it either! haha.
But I love Colin Firth. So no matter how bad it is, I would still find it decent. Only cause of Colin (who is pretty much Mr. Darcy, and always will be).
May 19, 2009 5:41 PM
I guess I shouldn't have worried that I have never heard of this movie since it seems no one else has either.