There are things I will never tell my kids and this movie has reaffirmed my resolve to never tell them. There are some things my kids need to know and some things they don't; the intricate details of my past love life are among the things they don't need to know about.
Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) was pressured by his daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) to give up the details of his love life. He decided to give it to her in story form with three women playing the main characters and one of them being her mom. He changed the names of the women to keep them all a mystery and Maya had to guess which of the three women was her mother in the story. There was the first love Emily (Elizabeth Banks), the second love Summer (Rachel Weisz), and the third love April (Isla Fisher).
"Definitely, Maybe" is about the complexities of love and the loved ones in our lives. Unlike many romance movies, we don't live happily ever after with our first sweetheart, or even the second, and sometimes loved ones resurface and things are better the second time around. There are tons of scenarios for the lucky few who've found happiness with someone else and "Definitely, Maybe" is exploring one of those scenarios. I'm not a rom-com kinda person, but after watching a very funny rom-com just the other day I thought maybe I was being unfair to the genre. "Definitely, Maybe" hasn't soured me on the genre, but it didn't win me over either.
Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) was pressured by his daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) to give up the details of his love life. He decided to give it to her in story form with three women playing the main characters and one of them being her mom. He changed the names of the women to keep them all a mystery and Maya had to guess which of the three women was her mother in the story. There was the first love Emily (Elizabeth Banks), the second love Summer (Rachel Weisz), and the third love April (Isla Fisher).
"Definitely, Maybe" is about the complexities of love and the loved ones in our lives. Unlike many romance movies, we don't live happily ever after with our first sweetheart, or even the second, and sometimes loved ones resurface and things are better the second time around. There are tons of scenarios for the lucky few who've found happiness with someone else and "Definitely, Maybe" is exploring one of those scenarios. I'm not a rom-com kinda person, but after watching a very funny rom-com just the other day I thought maybe I was being unfair to the genre. "Definitely, Maybe" hasn't soured me on the genre, but it didn't win me over either.