The dilemma of lost comedy and missing drama

The Dilemma (2011)

Wanted to see this solely because of the cast even though I knew it probably had nothing more to offer. And that's pretty much what it was, a bad movie with an interesting cast. Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are best friends and business partners on the verge of a big break. When Ronny sees Kevin's wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) cheat on Kevin, the "dilemma" comes wether Ronny should tell Kevin what had happen and make his life even harder than it already is or just keep quiet until things settle down. Ronny of course has his own "problems" too like how to propose to his girlfriend Beth (Jennifer Connelly). Things of course get overly complicated in the interest of "comedy" and everything seems to go wrong. Well the problem is that the "problems" the movie presents are not exactly problems that hard to solve and the fact that the movie spends almost 2 hours on it is just stupid. Another thing is the comedy, sure there were a few somewhat funny scenes, but I really didn't laugh too often. Actually funniest thing was to spot all the not too subtle product placements this movie had and there were tons of them. And the real joke came when I saw the budget of the movie, 70 million dollars. Holy shit, there's really nothing big happening in the movie so where the hell did the money go? Guess it went to hire the cast, which was indeed quite good. Too bad the script wasn't and surely the direction wasn't either. Those corny flashback scenes made me feel embarrassed for the director. So it's a big budget garbage with only a few funny scenes, not much drama, a stupid story and a good cast.
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