The things they sacrifice on the romance altar

Yeah, I know it's supposed to be a 'romantic comedy', paint-by-the-numbers-affair.

A movie this stupid, though, shouild not exist. Almost all the computer stuff was wrong on multiple levels and ways simultaneously, not to mention so many other details and things (the coffee machine in the office makes no sense, for example).

Charlie Sheen is the only thing holding this travesty somewhat together, but even he can't save a ship leaking this heavily.

If moviemakers didn't feel the desperate urge to churn out as many 'romcoms' as possible, in proper hands, even this stupid, little story - or at least premise - could have been an interesting, little gem, instead of being the predictable, superficial, misandristic claptrap that it is.

Just imagine all the 'flirting' scenes genders reversed and you'll be shocked. A grandma flirting with young Charlie Sheen, until they kiss?

Imagine a grandpa flirting with a young girl until they kiss, moving his hand disgustingly in his mouth while lustingly drooling over her, and constantly not only talking about her ass, but having some elderly man slap and grope some woman's ass blatantly and openly after the movie having shown close-ups of the young woman's ass.

This is exactly what happens in this movie, just genders reversed.

Besides the completely predictable story that checks every single 'romcom' point and beat perfectly without any room for creativity or imagination, this movie gets pretty much everything wrong, from simple and basic things like how phones work, how timezones work to common sense things, like computers, charging of laptops and such.

Why do some people have computers and others don't? The higher in hierarchy someone is, the less likely they are to have a computer, when in real world, it'd be the other way around.

We are shown 'advanced TFT monitors' in some brokers' office, but then old CRT monitors in a newspaper room. This makes no sense, it's the newspaper people that would need the more advanced tech.

Computers are almost always hidden as much as possible, if they are not completely cordness and cable-less laptops.

Look, I used a laptop a lot last summer, I had MULTIPLE things connected to it for maximum usability and comfort, plus, it had a charger and power cable connected to it at all times, as I was indoors.

My laptop would've looked VERY different to the ones this movie shows, because it had a mouse and keyboard connected, it was connected to an external, large monitor, and I even had an external hard drive and its dock connected to it.

If a basic user's requirements necessitate this many cords just to do some normal stuff, how much more would those PROFESSIONAL people have needed all of this stuff, especially since laptop batteries couldn't hold a charge for very long back then?

If this movie was even 1% realistic when it comes to laptops, there would've been ALL KINDS of devices and cables going every which way everywhere with those laptops and other computers.

Remarkably, this movie hides computers most of the time, so in real life, they would've been not only VISIBLE, but prominently so, and there would've been cables connected between EVERY SINGLE MONITOR and the computers, plus the power cords of the monitors, and then the computers would've had keyboard and mouse cables going into them, plus their own power cords as well.

This would have meant MANY, many cables, cords, etc. and since most people aren't that concerned about cord management, those cables would've been everywhere.

Instead, we see almost perfectly clean computer areas that are only bettered by the incredibly clean coffee corner in the office. Where does the editor get water and the coffee grounds? Don't know, but somehow it's the best possible location for a coffee machine!

This movie is so very very idiotic, I can't probably even watch it again until at least ten years has passed, if even then. Urgh.

Let me give YOU good advice - don't watch this movie, you'll save yourself from getting ulcers from all the stupidities and clichés. If you have EVER seen even one 'romantic comedy', you absolutely do NOT need to see this, you will know its plot already, and there will be NO surprises besides, the blatant objectifying of men and general misandry.