It was Something

Something Borrowed is one of those lazy, by-the-numbers films that make me want to give it a good kicking.

A rom-com/chick-flick, its cast includes the wonderful John Krasinski as well as assorted other vaguely well-known players such as Kate Hudson.

It follows the lives of a group of maddeningly self-centred, smug, over-privileged wankers as they go through the "trials" and "ordeals" of their cossetted and frankly empty lives.

The "action" is centred on the chap shown above and below, who's meant to be a sort of chisel-jawed, silent Darcey-type, all manly but too cowardly to say what he feels to the woman he is supposed to love and, instead, about to embark on a marriage to a woman for whom he has few feelings but of whom his dad apparently approves (despite her crass vulgarity).

He's meant to be a sex symbol, though I'm struggling to see it myself.

John Krasinski is reduced to playing the Best Male (straight) Friend of our heroine (which is code for him having massive yet unrequited love for her).

He also never talks about his feelings, leaving her oblivious (which is strange because he's constantly urging her to express her feelings).

She, incidentally, labours under a hair "style" which makes her look the spitting image of Cousin It:

There is a crassly amusing playboy (all cock and no brain), who acts as a foil to the civilised manners of the others (despite myself, I found some of the interactions between him and Krasinski rather funny):

It's pretty obvious where the film is going to, and indeed how it's going to get there. Suspense is near zero.

It's just so difficult to care about characters as dumb (literally) and wealthy and coccooned as these (much of the action is set in some weekend mansion/retreat in The Hamptons).

The only saving grace was John Krasinski, but he's really got to get better at picking scripts. Avoid this film like the plague.