#GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST TV MOVIE#
#GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST TV TV#

McConaughey and co-star Jennifer Garner have chemistry, and the “ghosts” (that is, Mead’s former girlfriends) make for fun setpieces.

#GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST TV MOVIE#

His character Conner Mead might not be the most compelling take on Scrooge, given that neither director Mark Waters nor screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore seem that upset about his womanizing, however, the movie does manage to be a clever twist on both the Christmas Carol story and on the rom com genre. Even without looking at the date, you can probably guess that Ghosts of Girlfriends Past comes from the pre-McConaissance period, when McConaughey starred in movies with posters that featured him leaning against things and flashing an easy smile. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past opens with Matthew McConaughey walking into a studio filled with lingerie models, flirting with a bunch of them, snapping a couple quick pictures, and moves off like he’s Austin Powers.

Heck, even Goldthwait’s grabs a shotgun and chases Frank through the studio. Even the ghosts have a chip on their shoulders, with Kane’s bubbly Ghost of Christmas Present introducing herself by kicking Cross in the groin, Johansen’s Ghost of Christmas Past cackling in his face, and the Ghost of Christmas Future doing its best Freddy Krueger impression and embedding souls in its rib cage. The first two-thirds of the movie workpretty well, as it just asks Murray to deliver deadpan cuts to everyone around him. Unfortunately, Scrooged doesn’t quite sell Cross’s transformation. If that’s not enough, Richard Donner directs a script by Saturday Night Live’s Michael O’Donoghue and Mitch Glazer. He gets visited by ghosts played by David Johansen and Carol Kane, and the supporting cast includes Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard, and Bobcat Goldthwait.

#GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST TV TV#

Bill Murray, in his ’80s glory, plays an updated version of Scrooge in the form of Frank Cross, a cruel tv exec who berates his underlings while putting on a live Christmas Eve broadcast of A Christmas Carol. Her whole bubbly personality is a joy to watch and just makes the suffering of the main protagonist even more comical as she forces him to witness all parts of his past.On paper, Scrooged sounds like a home run. She could have been in every scene and it would have been made a thousand times better. She is excitable and over the top bringing comedy and light-hearted humour whenever she is on screen. This is the ghost that needs most attention, the main reason for this? Oh, only because its Emma Stone! Emma Stone is the highlight of this romcom. You can quickly realise why Conor is the way he is. Douglas does play the self-righteous character well. The first ghost seen is his hero, his Uncle played by Michael Douglas. The majority of the film, as the name insists, is about the ghosts’ messages to Conor. But during this rather long time, the ending comes too soon. It takes a rather long time until the message settles in, which is realistic if you’re going to change your entire personality in one night. Instead, he’s rather irritating throughout the whole film and it’s completely understandable why he’s alone and shouldn’t get the girl! Where he is supposed to be learning a lesson by seeing the ghosts, his scared persona becomes annoying as he makes it all about him still. However, the issue lies in the fact that this character doesn’t really have any endearing qualities to latch onto, the audience sees no need for hope. I understand he’s supposed to be a pretty insufferable character in order to provoke the ‘three ghosts’ situation. Here lies the problem, Matthew McConaughey plays this character too well.

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