Review: Something Borrowed

So Sunday night arrives, and there's a decision to be made. Go to the cinema, or revise for forthcoming A-Levels. Not much of a decision, really, is it? Since Water For Elephants was already booked in for Wednesday, my friend Roz and I had no choice but to go and see the exceptionally rubbishy-looking 'Something Borrowed', based on a book I read last year and was massively irritated by.

The trailer led me to hope that they may have changed the plot slightly, which is, in essence, that two women who have been best friends forever fall in love with the same man. Rachel (sensible, generous, kind, lawyer) was in love with him first, but hesitated at the wrong moment and kind of shoved this man into dating her best friend, Darcy (attention-seeking, flirty, inconsiderate). Skip six years. Now Darcy and the man (Dex) are getting married, Rachel is turning thirty and single, and gets very drunk. Result: Dex and Rachel sleep together. Cue lots of angst, silliness, worry and very little common sense.

I won't say I didn't laugh; there were some very funny moments, the majority of which provided by John Krasinski, playing Rachel's other best friend, Ethan. This was one of my many issues with the film; why is she lusting after her best friend's bloke when she has a beautiful, lovely, funny, SINGLE guy right there?

Anyway, I think the fact that I was watching this with MY best friend made me view it in a completely different light, because at one point I turned to look at my best friend and just thought...NO! THIS IS NOT OKAY! Everybody in the film acts as though it's perfectly fine to be sleeping with your best friend's fiance, because you loved him first, you're much better suited to him and your best friend's kind of an irritating show-off. But, as a viewer, I was just sat there thinking: NOT OKAY! And I couldn't help but come to the conclusion that the woman who wrote this either a) had never had a proper best friend, or b) did something horrible to her best friend and tried to justify it through fiction. Either way, she was not qualified to write this film.

So really, the moral of the story was 'Sleeping with your best friend's fiance is allowed, as long as your best friend's a bitch.' *sigh*

Basic summary: an insensible but mildly amusing rom-com with all the best lines from John Krasinski and a lot of irritation for those of you with a best friend and a conscience.

Rating: * (poor)