I Was Forced Into It!
The only reason I saw this movie is because someone else suggested it. I was up for seeing Finding Nemo a second time, but as I didn't pay for this movie I really couldn't complain.

Only One Comic Book Reference in This Movie, and It's a Bad One
No one in spandex (or purple shorts), they don't leaping over tall buildings or save the world in this movie. Main plot: a stupid writer (Alex) owes some Miami bookies $100,000 so he has to write the Great American Novel to get paid by his publisher to save his life, and do all of this in 30 days. Enter the stenographer/love interest (Emma); I think this is the first movie to feature a main character that's a stenographer.

You Can Figure Out the Rest on Your Own
This is a date flick and has "bad plot" all over it. I read several bad reviews about this movie and really didn't want to see it, so I was relieved that it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. The only interesting parts are when we "go into the book" as Alex is dictating it to Emma.

So there are really two plots in the film; the book and what's going on in real life. Sometimes the writer mixes the two for interesting and funny results. This leads to the only two clever characters in the whole movie, "The Two Cubans" Tony and Bobby (played by Chico XL and Lobo Sebastian; I just love their names! Can they have their own movie?)

At first Tony and Bobby are nothing but the bad guys who hang Alex out the window, but he works them into the book as characters. Near the end of the movie Alex pays them off to leave him alone, but you never see them get the money. So we end up with two characters and a plot point that goes nowhere by the end of the movie so we can get to the happily-ever-after lovey dovey crap!

I wanted to see what happened when Alex paid them off. They probably slapped him on the back and it could have been funny. Also would be funny to know what they would think of the characterizations of them in the book (maybe they would really throw Alex out the window. I'd have liked to seenthat). My friend and I left the theater wondering about this. It was the one thing that really bugged me and only made the movie plot sloppier.

So if you want to see a sloppy mushy date movie, go to this. The only thing good I can say about it is I liked it more than You've Got Mail.