The Proposal

With summer blockbusters such as Harry Potter, Transformers, Public Enemies all coming out, I had promised my wife that I would take her to the movie she wanted….which was the Proposal.


I have to admit, when I was going, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy this film, but I ended up going to just enjoy, and laughed from the beginning it started till the time it ended.
The movie is about Margaret Tate played by Sandra Bullock, who is a book publisher editor and chief. Everyone fears her and despises her. Her assistant is Andrew Paxton played by Ryan Reynolds. He basically plays her personal bitch. Were he does everything she needs, and is maintained there by her threatening of being thrown out with nothing.
Bullock has a meeting up at her bosses’ offices, were she finds out since she broke an immigration law, that she is being deported to Canada, were she was born UNLESS she has some other opportunity which ironically her assistant walks in as queue and she lied telling them that they are going to be married!
So the next major portion of the movie ends up at his family’s estate in Alaska, conning his family that they were engaged and the excitement only starts to increase from then!
Naturally this film is predicable for the remaining of the film, but with chemistry between Bullock and Reynolds, it worth my while to watch. Betty White plays his Grandma who was turning 90 years old. She added some spice to the film as well. You will get to see more of Oscar from the Office then you will want to see, but Oscar Nunez who plays Ramone did a great job playing a Pastor, a Stripper, a Store manager, and a waiter.
What didn’t work in this film is the whole immigration part. I am sorry, but the US Government doesn’t work that fast as they did in this film…trust me. Anyways, the timing of the film didn’t work for me. They flew from New York to a remote part of Alaska on a Friday, and returned to New York by Monday? That didn’t make any sense why they cut it so short.
All in all, the film was fun, the witty humor and chemistry of Bullock and Reynolds was definitely worth my time with my wife to see this film. I am sure it will be part of our movie collection, and I wouldn’t mind.
For all those men out there who owes your wife a movie out, take the opportunity to see this one, and it will be a win, win situation.