美国版我的野蛮女友 My Sassy Girl review by David Nusair

Infused with as over-the-top and relentlessly quirky sensibility as one could possibly envision, My Sassy Girl quickly establishes itself as an uncommonly interminable romantic comedy that effectively squanders its relatively promising opening half hour. The film revolves around the off-kilter relationship that ensues between a buttoned-up guy (Jesse Bradford's Charlie Bellow) and a free-spirited girl (Elisha Cuthbert's Jordan Roark) after he saves her life, with the bulk of the proceedings devoted to Charlie's efforts at understanding just what it is that makes Jordan tick. Director Yann Samuell has infused My Sassy Girl with a sense of style that's certainly reminiscent of his first feature, 2003's mildly superior Love Me If You Dare, and it goes without saying that his aggressively loopy modus operandi becomes oppressive almost immediately. Far more problematic, however, is screenwriter Victor Levin's handling of Cuthbert's character, as Jordan - though clearly intended to come off as a free-wheeling nonconformist - has been instilled with hopelessly broad attributes that make it impossible to believe that she could ever exist in the real world. It gets to a point where one, as the movie progresses, can't help but come to the conclusion that Jordan is clinically insane and belongs within the deepest recesses of a dank mental hospital, which obviously makes it exceedingly difficult to buy into Charlie's continuing attempts at making the relationship work. Jordan's head-scratching behavior reaches a breaking point towards the film's conclusion, as her baffling request to Charlie to spend a year apart ultimately possesses the feel of an eye-rollingly needless spin on the requisite fake break-up. It's subsequently not surprising to note that the film is entirely lacking in the emotional impact that Samuell is clearly striving for, with one finally forced to assume that something has gotten woefully lost in the translation (the movie is, after all, based on a 2001 South Korean effort).

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