I do not know where to start, I was liking this movie, but I didn't think it was going to be so cliché and cheesy at the end, I was very disappointed. The movie has quite funny parts that made me laugh out loud, it starts very well and the plot unfolds in a more or less coherent and entertaining way.
Melanie (the protagonist) gets engaged to her McDreamy 'yankee' boyfriend (Andrew) who is madly in love with her, despite the fact that his mom does not agree with their relationship. Once they are engaged, she travels to her native Alabama to ask her husband (surprise!) to finally sign the divorce papers (she's been asking him for 7 years). Jake -her husband- doesn't want a divorce and they spend at least 20 minutes of the film fighting and hating each other for that, which would make you assume what caused their marriage to fail... After that, Melanie reunites with some of her old friends and one night while she is drunk, she insults them by telling them, in other words, they're some big losers with stagnant lives.
The morning after, Melanie regrets what she said and has a wake-up call; she begins to consider her family and childhood friends more and thanks to that new appreciation, she falls in love with her husband again (this fact is shown in a very vague way, in just a 5 minute scene - actually, the movie focuses more on the relationship of Melanie and Andrew).
At the same time, Melanie's fiancé travels to Alabama to surprise her but there he finds out his fiancée lied to him about her family name, her story, never told him that she was still married or that she had been pregnant... I mean, some details to reconsider something as big as a marriage, but, no, it does not take him a day to decide he was going to marry her despite 'her past'. They were going to celebrate the wedding in Alabama.
In the last scenes, we see a more sentimental Jake, who still loves Melanie and is hurt that she's going to get married (dude, it's been 7 years without you guys talking to each other). In the end, at the wedding and in front of all the guests (something very realistic), Melanie's lawyer breaks in to tell her that she forgot to sign her part on the divorce paper... Once she is holding the pen to sign it, she changes her mind and tells Andrew that she doesn't love him and can't marry him.
Andrew smiles and says that he understands, then leaves the place, but not before kissing Melanie in the hand (wtf?). Apparently, the only person outraged by the humiliation Andrew had just suffered and by how terrible Melanie acted was Andrew's mom, but, when she was expressing her outrage, she gets punched in the face by Melanie, yup.
After that, Melanie runs to find her first, true love, they kiss under the rain and live happily ever after.
Man, this film has so many mistakes, I was disappointed because I thought the message was going to be different, that despite having had a first love, you can love again and leave those beautiful memories of the past behind. I thought Melanie would continue her life with her fiancé who loved her and was going to reconcile with her old friends, maintaining a good relation with them, accepting their lifestyles and traveling back to Alabama once in a while. I assumed the movie was going to be more realistic; it started very well, it had good comedy parts, but the way it ended was illogical, cliché, fanciful and even outrageous (did Andrew deserve that? - so Andrew's mom was always right?)
Ok, yes, I seem to be the only one who cared about Andrew's feelings, that's why I did not fall for the cliché ending of the movie.
Wtf was that "So, this is what this feels like" from Andrew while he was being humiliated at his wedding? That's a 5/10. P.S.: Sweet Home Alabama (by Lynyrd Skynyrd) rocks, though!
Melanie (the protagonist) gets engaged to her McDreamy 'yankee' boyfriend (Andrew) who is madly in love with her, despite the fact that his mom does not agree with their relationship. Once they are engaged, she travels to her native Alabama to ask her husband (surprise!) to finally sign the divorce papers (she's been asking him for 7 years). Jake -her husband- doesn't want a divorce and they spend at least 20 minutes of the film fighting and hating each other for that, which would make you assume what caused their marriage to fail... After that, Melanie reunites with some of her old friends and one night while she is drunk, she insults them by telling them, in other words, they're some big losers with stagnant lives.
The morning after, Melanie regrets what she said and has a wake-up call; she begins to consider her family and childhood friends more and thanks to that new appreciation, she falls in love with her husband again (this fact is shown in a very vague way, in just a 5 minute scene - actually, the movie focuses more on the relationship of Melanie and Andrew).
At the same time, Melanie's fiancé travels to Alabama to surprise her but there he finds out his fiancée lied to him about her family name, her story, never told him that she was still married or that she had been pregnant... I mean, some details to reconsider something as big as a marriage, but, no, it does not take him a day to decide he was going to marry her despite 'her past'. They were going to celebrate the wedding in Alabama.
In the last scenes, we see a more sentimental Jake, who still loves Melanie and is hurt that she's going to get married (dude, it's been 7 years without you guys talking to each other). In the end, at the wedding and in front of all the guests (something very realistic), Melanie's lawyer breaks in to tell her that she forgot to sign her part on the divorce paper... Once she is holding the pen to sign it, she changes her mind and tells Andrew that she doesn't love him and can't marry him.
Andrew smiles and says that he understands, then leaves the place, but not before kissing Melanie in the hand (wtf?). Apparently, the only person outraged by the humiliation Andrew had just suffered and by how terrible Melanie acted was Andrew's mom, but, when she was expressing her outrage, she gets punched in the face by Melanie, yup.
After that, Melanie runs to find her first, true love, they kiss under the rain and live happily ever after.
Man, this film has so many mistakes, I was disappointed because I thought the message was going to be different, that despite having had a first love, you can love again and leave those beautiful memories of the past behind. I thought Melanie would continue her life with her fiancé who loved her and was going to reconcile with her old friends, maintaining a good relation with them, accepting their lifestyles and traveling back to Alabama once in a while. I assumed the movie was going to be more realistic; it started very well, it had good comedy parts, but the way it ended was illogical, cliché, fanciful and even outrageous (did Andrew deserve that? - so Andrew's mom was always right?)
Ok, yes, I seem to be the only one who cared about Andrew's feelings, that's why I did not fall for the cliché ending of the movie.
Wtf was that "So, this is what this feels like" from Andrew while he was being humiliated at his wedding? That's a 5/10. P.S.: Sweet Home Alabama (by Lynyrd Skynyrd) rocks, though!