While this movie has a number of things wrong with it, I think the biggest is that it is just really difficult to root for the main character Trish.
Right away they establish Trish as an executive assistance who dreams of being a feature writer who can pick her own stories. Unfortunately she just isn't any good. Given her big shot to pitch ideas to the boss, she fails miserably. I expected the trope of her starting with the safe ideas and only pulling out the brilliant one under pressure, but nope. Nothing. She had absolutely no good ideas and even failed to see that her own situation of three weddings in three weeks could make for an interesting piece. Luckily the editor hands her an opportunity to achieve her dream by writing a piece on her upcoming wedding experiences.
Moving on to the weddings, we find that she is apparently totally against marriage and love in general? She repeatedly comes off as bitter and a poor choice for her role in these weddings. Given a rare, likely expensive, and extremely sentimental record, she carelessly puts it in her purse for "safe keeping" Seeing this it was immediately obvious that it was not going to survive until the wedding. Once broken, her reaction amounts to a "woops" and a shrug and a decision to download the song later. No remorse at breaking a rare/expensive/sentimental object that does not belong to her, and potentially ruining the couples first dance.
But hey, everyone loves a redemption story, right? Trish slowly starts coming around to the idea of love. As the movie progresses she begins falling for her best friends brother Ryan, a world traveling photographer who guides her in helping her friends. At one point he shares a dream of his own, his Everest, which is to photograph the southern lights. He even shares that a previous opportunity to achieve his goal was thwarted by a presumably selfish girlfriend. As the movie winds down and Trish and Ryan finally come together, Trish finally finds the inspiration to write her story and submits it.
Meanwhile, Ryan is offered his opportunity to travel to Australia to photograph the southern lights, but must leave almost immediately. Knowing this is poor timing for their budding relationship, he asks if they can pick up where they left off when he gets back from FULLFILLING A DREAM. Of course Trish will finish her redemption arc and selflessly insist that he go and there will be time for them later, right? NOPE. Instead she explains that having gotten a taste of love, she cannot imagine being with someone who will be traveling as much as Ryan does. This amounts to an ultimatum of "choose between me and your dream". I understand why she would not want to be in that type of relationship, but he had made it clear that he was thinking of settling down already. Completion of Trish's redemption would have been her actually being happy for him finally getting his dream, while explaining that when he returned perhaps they could discuss their future and an end to his nomadic lifestyle.
Ultimately he gives up his dream for a woman who simply did not deserve him. Just as Trish starts to become likeable, she shows how horribly selfish she is, cementing herself as an unlikable character. Never been so unhappy when a couple in a romantic comedy finally get together. Terrible ending.
Right away they establish Trish as an executive assistance who dreams of being a feature writer who can pick her own stories. Unfortunately she just isn't any good. Given her big shot to pitch ideas to the boss, she fails miserably. I expected the trope of her starting with the safe ideas and only pulling out the brilliant one under pressure, but nope. Nothing. She had absolutely no good ideas and even failed to see that her own situation of three weddings in three weeks could make for an interesting piece. Luckily the editor hands her an opportunity to achieve her dream by writing a piece on her upcoming wedding experiences.
Moving on to the weddings, we find that she is apparently totally against marriage and love in general? She repeatedly comes off as bitter and a poor choice for her role in these weddings. Given a rare, likely expensive, and extremely sentimental record, she carelessly puts it in her purse for "safe keeping" Seeing this it was immediately obvious that it was not going to survive until the wedding. Once broken, her reaction amounts to a "woops" and a shrug and a decision to download the song later. No remorse at breaking a rare/expensive/sentimental object that does not belong to her, and potentially ruining the couples first dance.
But hey, everyone loves a redemption story, right? Trish slowly starts coming around to the idea of love. As the movie progresses she begins falling for her best friends brother Ryan, a world traveling photographer who guides her in helping her friends. At one point he shares a dream of his own, his Everest, which is to photograph the southern lights. He even shares that a previous opportunity to achieve his goal was thwarted by a presumably selfish girlfriend. As the movie winds down and Trish and Ryan finally come together, Trish finally finds the inspiration to write her story and submits it.
Meanwhile, Ryan is offered his opportunity to travel to Australia to photograph the southern lights, but must leave almost immediately. Knowing this is poor timing for their budding relationship, he asks if they can pick up where they left off when he gets back from FULLFILLING A DREAM. Of course Trish will finish her redemption arc and selflessly insist that he go and there will be time for them later, right? NOPE. Instead she explains that having gotten a taste of love, she cannot imagine being with someone who will be traveling as much as Ryan does. This amounts to an ultimatum of "choose between me and your dream". I understand why she would not want to be in that type of relationship, but he had made it clear that he was thinking of settling down already. Completion of Trish's redemption would have been her actually being happy for him finally getting his dream, while explaining that when he returned perhaps they could discuss their future and an end to his nomadic lifestyle.
Ultimately he gives up his dream for a woman who simply did not deserve him. Just as Trish starts to become likeable, she shows how horribly selfish she is, cementing herself as an unlikable character. Never been so unhappy when a couple in a romantic comedy finally get together. Terrible ending.