Ahhh, I know, I
know. This isn’t horror. Well, technically it isn’t. Perhaps in someone’s book it is… But, alas I had promised a certain someone I
would write one chick flick
review. So I thought it only made sense
to write about the only chick flick I’ve really watched recently, which just so
happens to be ‘This Means War’. And ok,
I’ll admit it… my gigantic crush on Tom Hardy may have influenced this movie choice. But that’s irrelevant… sort of.
The movie is centered
on Reese Witherspoon’s character Lauren, a likeable thirty-something who is
down on her luck when it comes to men.
Enter her somewhat-loony friend Trish (Chelsea Handler, who is on fire
as usual), who posts an ‘interesting’ profile on a dating website in hopes to
get Lauren back in the game. Cue my
green-with-envy face when Lauren clicks on the profile of secret CIA agent and
super sweetheart Tuck (Tom Hardy), with whom she goes out on a drink date. Unbeknownst to Lauren, Tuck’s best friend and
co-worker, the extremely slick FDR (Chris Pine), is at a nearby video store
waiting in the wings to rescue Tuck should the date turn sour. Of course Lauren was bound to run into FDR –
and that is where the love-hate relationship begins. Lauren agrees to go on a date with FDR
(mostly to shut him up), while at the same time intending on seeing Tuck. Little do the guys know (until revealing
their new girlfriends to each other at work) they are dating the same girl. They agree to keep dating her, without her
knowledge of them being friends, and pretty much let the best man win. Of course, with the super spy resources they
have at their fingertips, it isn’t quite the subtle battle one would imagine.
This was such a funny
and enjoyable movie. I love both Hardy
and Pine and their characters ticked all the boxes for me. Handler was fantastic as potty-mouthed Trish;
I am fairly certain she was playing herself.
Throughout the whole movie you are constantly wondering who Lauren will
eventually choose – Tuck? FDR? Neither?
And of course you want both of them to be picked! But although I was a little dissatisfied with
the end result, I felt cheery and entertained when we walked out of the
cinema.
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