The Ex
Hmmmm, not quite sure what they were going for in this movie, but where ever it was, they didn’t get there.
I’m going to guess that a lot of people had a bunch of free time on there hands and decided to spend a weekend making a movie.
Tom (Zach Braff) and Sofia (Amanda Peet) are married and expecting their first child and when Tom blows it at his current job, they decided to pack it up and start over in Ohio, with Tom working for his Father in Law and Sofia raising the child at home.
Enter Chip (Jason Bateman), an old high school flame of Sofia who always loved her and now wants to get her back. But Chip is in a wheelchair and as Tom tries to defend his honor and save his marriage in one wacky situation after another, he comes off as extremely insensitive.
Now there are a couple of funny moments in the film, but more than anything the film is a series of scenes strung held together by the thinnest of threads. The laughs that do exist in the movie don’t make up for the poor script and direction of the movie.
I’ve seen everyone in this movie play these same exact roles in other films with much more success, so I can’t say that I would recommend this to anyone. Watch it on cable if you get bored one night.
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