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Corporate dragon Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) blackmails her assistant (Ryan Reynolds) into marriage in “The Proposal.” |
By most standards, Anne Fletcher’s “The Proposal” should be a formula romantic comedy disaster.
Its plot and characters exhibit an aversion to originality, especially the feeble, seen-it-before-a-million-times ending.
Pete Chiarelli’s screenplay overdoses on brain-dead verbal clichés. (“That’s what I’m talkin’ about!” Sandra Bullock bellows. “Trust me!” she says. “I have a bad feeling about this,” Ryan Reynolds reveals.) (Read more…)