This dismal frat-boy romcom was scripted by Greg Glienna, who wrote Meet the Parents, but entirely lacks its zip and fun. Jason Lee plays a decent young guy engaged to uptight preppie Selma Blair. It all sounds perfect, but wait. The morning after his bachelor party he wakes up next to Julia Stiles, who was one of the "hula girls" hired for his stag extravaganza. And his fiancee is on her way over. Yikes.
What follows is a desperately strained farce which tries being both sweetly romantic for the girls, with plenty of broad comedy for the guys. It has very clearly been test-screened and revised over and over again, which accounts for the desperately uneasy tone, and its patchwork of disconnected, inane comic scenes cobbled together.
The test-screening respondents were undoubtedly canvassed intensively on how cute they found Jason Lee. And they must have given him, as they say, the "top two boxes": Very Cute or Cute.
Well, I'm not the target audience, but it baffles me. As in his recent comedy Stealing Harvard, Lee comes across as supercilious and charmless. As for Julia Stiles - the Julia Stiles we all fell in love with in 10 Things I Hate About You - it's awful to see Hollywood's classiest young actress involved in this dreck.