![]() While I´m sure that´s not the case, it´s a strange and distracting technique usually you´ll see the Scrooge character try to physically prevent his younger self from making the wrong decision here, Connor just watches from the sidelines and makes snide comments. Coincidentally, Jenny also happens to be the Maid of Honor at his brother´s wedding I wonder if…? Strangely, these flashback scenes are filmed awkwardly, so that Connor and the ghost are usually never in the same frame as inhabitants of the flashbacks it´s almost as if it was conceived as a straight flashback, and then the ghost stuff was added later. We all know where this is going, right? As is later revealed via flashbacks, it was Wayne who raised nephew Connor to become a playboy after both his parents were killed in a car accident.įirst up is the Ghost of Girlfriends Past (Emma Stone), who transports Connor back to the time that he was a sweet young kid in love with best friend Jenny Perotti (Jennifer Garner). ![]() The wedding is being held at the deceased Uncle Wayne´s estate Wayne (Michael Douglas) shows up as a ghost and tells Connor that he´ll be visited by three more, etc. Moving on: he shows up for his brother´s wedding rehearsal, just in time to plead with Paul (Breckin Meyer) to think things over, and gives a big ‘love isn´t real´ anti-marriage speech at the rehearsal dinner. In one of the opening scenes, he dumps three women simultaneously via teleconference, and then jumps back in bed with his current date, who is all-too-eager to continue despite witnessing the whole thing. McConaughey stars as womanizing fashion photographer Connor Mead, kind of a US version of Alfie – though McConaughey is no Michael Caine (or Jude Law, for that matter), and the character, as written, is so explicitly misogynistic and unappealing I can´t imagine what all these women see in him. As you might infer from the title, director Mark Waters´ film uses Dickens´ A Christmas Carol as a basis of sorts, and I suspect it´s this storyline that keeps the movie afloat. ![]() A competent melding of Charles Dickens and light Matthew McConaughey rom-com, the awkwardly titled Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (there´s only one Ghost of Girlfriends Past, the other two are Present and Future) is proficient if little else. ![]()
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