You can count the jokes that work on one hand; the rest is pratfalls and predictability.
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04/29/09
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
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Reviews Counted:133
Fresh:36
Rotten:97
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: A retread of A Christmas Carol, featuring Matthew McConaughey in a retread of his Dazed and Confused role, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past lacks originality, humor, and any semblance of charm.
Theatrical Release:01-05-2009
Synopsis: Celebrity photographer Connor Mead (MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY) loves freedom, fun and women...in that order. A committed bachelor with a no-strings policy, he thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Breckin Meyer
Director: Mark Waters
Reviews for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
This rom/com gave me nightmares.
04/29/09
The Dickens elements elevate Ghosts of Girlfriends Past above the level of pure formula; unfortunately, the presence of McConaughey in full sleaze mode makes it difficult to like this film's Scrooge, even after his redemption occurs.
04/29/09
The movie is cheesy, tacky, and gimmicky. But as directed by Mark Waters, it's also prankish and inventive enough to be kind of fun.
04/29/09
This crude reworking of Dickens was probably a bad idea to begin with, but it's so haplessly done that it didn't have a ghost of a chance.
04/29/09
Lacking wit and subtlety, this high-concept comedy suffers from casting McConaughey, who has the cockiness but not the likability as the eternal bachelor, and lack of chemsistry between him and the gifted Garner; it's Doulglas who walks out with the film
04/29/09
Quite honestly, you have much better things to do with your time.
04/29/09
Poorly written, indifferently directed, it's multiplex filler at its worst...Who is it exactly that thinks Matthew McConaughey is funny?
04/29/09
McConaughey's self-satisfied and oleaginous performance scrapes away the trace amounts of charm the film has to offer.
04/28/09
Above all, it will make you long for a day when studio movies about relationships feel like they are by and for adults who have actually been in one.
04/28/09
The plot's eventual denigration of the single life and endorsement of soul mates and happily-ever-afters is predictably rote.
04/28/09
As written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and directed by Mark Waters, the movie clumps through one witless if not wince-evoking sequence after another without the relief of laughter.
04/27/09
Top CriticA second-rate sex farce...mostly clunky and vaguely unsavory.
04/27/09
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