![]() Sparks fly, and they’re not just the bad kind. ![]() She is serious about this wedding, and he is seriously not. And whoever put McConaughey in that really bad shoulder-length hair piece (or extensions, whatever) for his trip down memory lane should be banished from blow-dry land forever.īack in the real world, Connor is having to deal with his childhood sweetheart Jenny - a smart and sassy Jennifer Garner - who’s running point as the maid of honor. A little nuance would have gone a long way. This is where the movie hits a low with its endless tales of his mindless seduction of, let’s just call them the disposable femmes. Soon Connor is on a travesty tour of all the women he has wronged - they are legion - conducted primarily by the tag team of Connor’s late Lothario/mentor, Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), and the first girl he slept with, Allison Vandermeersh (Emma Stone). (Why is it that friends and relatives, dead or alive, choose weddings to settle old scores?) In “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,” the occasion of his brother Paul’s (Breckin Meyer) wedding kicks things off as the dearly departed return to force Connor to question his life in the fast lane. For McConaughey - and this is as clear as the digital wide-screen picture in front of you - it’s the hard truth that his young hunk days are ending. For Connor, it’s the painful realization that being an unrepentant playboy might not be the best life plan. ![]() Did I mention there are no angels here?īut lest you dismiss “Ghosts” as just another frothy sexual romp for the sun-kissed, ab-sculpted star, there is an actual cautionary tale here. A webcam breakup with three girls at once is possibly the worst of it. So essentially it is McConaughey once again playing to type - this time as high-end fashion photographer Connor Mead, happily breezing through more women than you’d find in the Manhattan phone book. “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” is an amusingly sentimental whiff of a romantic comedy, a modern-day morality tale that is a little “It’s Not Such a Wonderful Life” and a lot “A Very Un-Christmas Carol.” Instead of Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey despairing over a life lived in service to the greater good, we have Matthew McConaughey as a man relishing a life lived in service to the greater bad. ![]()
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