Jason Lee plays Paul Coleman an ad-man at his fiancés dad’s firm, it is the week before his wedding and we join him at his bachelor party.

A seemingly sensible guy, when the Kiki dancers show up he gets his “goofy” best friend to don the Groom hat, so he can avoid any pre-marital cock-ups. Guess what? It doesn’t work. The next morning he wakes up next to the b-e-a-utifull Becky (Julia Stiles) a kiki dancer from the previous nights debauchery. From here things get silly. It turns out Becky is Paul’s fiancé Karen’s (Slema Blair) cousin. At first he does his best just to avoid her, but obviously he fails and the three of them come face to face to face. The rest of the film is spent playing out what can best be described as farcical scenarios where Lee, inevitably, is made a fool of.

Whilst the overall package is reasonably amusing, the story is highly predictable and the characters deeply unoriginal. That said the actors do a pretty good job with what they have. I am a huge fan of both Julia Stiles and Jason Lee, and I deeply wish neither of them ever feels the need to make this sort of middle of the road mediocrity ever again.

I think this films major problem is that it’s a chick flick but it seems to be aimed at “Guy’s”. Now if you are anything like me, the majority of chick flicks will bore you shitless. The recycled plots, the predictable characters the half-assed gags they all add up to, what usually can be described as, drivel. This pretty much falls into that category, the angle of a guy/chick flick is not quite enough to raise this too the lofty heights of Sleepless in Seattle or When Harry Met Sally (the only two Rom-Coms I think have any real merit). It does however open up some more brutal/gross comedy opportunities which in a conventional chick flick would not be acceptable and this does help put it in the second tier of rom-com hell. Overall though this film is, unfortunately, just more Hollywood poly-filler, it does try to be slightly different and it does stir some laughs, and for this it shall receive some credit but, only some.