Mr Wrong

Mr Wrong has some issues.

Director: Nick Castle 
Writers: Chris Matheson
                Kerry Ehrin
                Craig Munson

I'm just gonna say that this film got a 7% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 25% audience rating. I don't get why it got such bad reviews. This wasn't a terrible movie, I mean it wasn't the best but it wasn't especially terrible. The first half was pretty bad, full of romantic clichés such as a blind date not going well and ending with Quote: "Can I french kiss you?" And yes...that's an actual line here. There's the cliché of having the lonely person flipping channels but all that seems to be on the tv is romantic movies where people kiss as the channel is turned on to, the end of another date ending with a kiss and the lines Quote: "I think I'm gonna faint." "I'll catch you." Again that's real dialogue in this movie. The first half of this seems like it's trying to copy the formula of all the other romantic comedies, it's so cheesy and painful I spent most of it thinking "this is pretty shit, how long is left?"

Then we got to the good stuff, Martha (Ellen Degeneres) feels like the relationship has gone as far as it can go and tries to break up with Whitman (Bill Pullman) he then proceeds to make her life a genuine fucking mess. He breaks his finger in front of her and tells her it's for love, he dresses a clown and dances outside her bedroom window as a callback to an earlier scene where she talks about something similar that happened to her as a child, he gets her really big romantic gifts like massive teddy bears and big bunches of roses and even a portrait of himself, he gets involved in her work and almost gets her fired, he gets her run over after he turns the private investigator she hired to look into him against her, (this part has the best line in the whole film Quote: "you dick, you stupid private dick dick!" I don't care if sounds stupid, I love it) gets her run over and spreads that it was a suicide attempt, kidnaps her, sort of adopts his mothers' housekeepers children, drugs her with chamomile and LSD and finally tries to force her into marrying him. I love how bizarrely extreme it got, to the point where she has to shoot him in the church to rid herself of this crazy guy.

I see why this movie didn't work when it came out because the same thing happened with The Cable Guy. That thing was hated when it came out, it was too dark and unrealistic and nobody liked seeing Jim Carrey as a creepy stalker or even seeing Matthew Broderick...at all really. The point of that film was what if that slightly odd person you knew was fully realised and pushed to the extreme, was completely obsessed with you and was relentless in pursuing you. This is pretty much the exact same thing but more for a romantic comedy. What if that kinda stalker-y ex was fully realised and pushed to the extreme refused to let you go and got more dramatic in his attempts to keep you and the real kicker being that nobody believes you that he's a complete walnut? If you were in that situation in real life, of course it would be scary as shit and not at all funny, but as a film idea and you're watching the absolute golden rule of comedy: all comedy is based on suffering, it's fucking hilarious to watch.

I'm pretty surprised it never got a sequel because it closed off nicely with a possible set up for a continuation, with all the needless sequels to everything like Fast and Furious 8, Toy Story 4, Cars 3, Alien: Covenant, and a hell of a lot more, how about we get a sequel to this out, it'd be interesting to see what extremes Whitman can go to in his pursuit of love. Maybe Martha and Walter (John Livingston) are married and going through some issues but Whitman shows up and charms his way back into Martha's life, acting like another man, the extremes he goes to breaks the couple up, it could be another dark satire on the romantic comedy film which is sort of needed really. Even if it wasn't that story outline I'd just love to see how this story could carry on. Don't put more money into a new Pirates of the Carribean movie and whack it into getting this project out there.

Please watch this if you get a chance, the first half is kinda painful to get through if you don't like naff dialogue and cheesy set ups and at some point, you're probably going to question why she's telling the whole story starting at her sister's wedding to the two police interrogating her about shooting Whitman. Aside from that..pretty quality movie, if nothing else it's got Ellen Degeneres so...y'know that she's gonna do pretty great regardless.

This is just my opinion and if you disagree then that's great I'm open to discussion and I'm always interested to hear how you feel about this film. This is also a critique which is considered "Fair Use" under the Copyright Act 1976. If you like this film then please go and support its creators by buying the DVD or Bluray.