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70Writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore steal from the best, gleefully cribbing from "A Christmas Carol" to fashion a screenplay with heart and sharp one-liners.
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67The movie is cheesy, tacky, and gimmicky. But as directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), it's also prankish and inventive enough to be kind of fun.
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63Despite my McConaughey resistance I got more guilty chuckles from Ghosts of Girlfriends Past than "Failure to Launch" or "Four Christmases."
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63The season's first genuine guilty pleasure.
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63In terms of character, McConaughey is the toxin and Garner the antitoxin. It's not exactly chemistry, but as pharmacology it's effective.
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63Lacks the kind of forceful, attention-grabbing chemistry that elevates a movie in this genre from a passable diversion to a lasting source of entertainment.
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Ghosts finishes well, and the familiar McConaughey heel-grows-a-heart story arc is engaging.
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60Likely to exceed expectations.
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An amusingly sentimental whiff of a romantic comedy.
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50It's not particularly funny to hear women described and valued exclusively in terms of their function as disposable sexual partners. A lot of Connor's dialogue is just plain sadistic and qualifies him as that part of an ass it shares with a doughnut.
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50Has some laughs - more than a few thanks to Michael Douglas as a dead swinger (the movie's Jacob Marley) - and some moments of tenderness, too.
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50It's the movie equivalent of fast food -- nobody needs this to be good, just adequate. And Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is nothing if not thoroughly adequate.
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50Ghosts can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a racy raunchfest or a sentimental celebration of soul mates. So it ends up being a sappy, sleazy hybrid.
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50Ghosts is better-than-average McConaughey swill, but not by much - that's its pleasure and its curse.
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50The dialogue is almost primitive at times, almost every female character is an idiot and McConaughey grossly overplays the bachelor-sleazeball antics at the beginning.
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50Mostly clunky and vaguely unsavory.
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50At least Douglas has a good time bringing the smarminess that McConaughey so studiously avoids.
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40The movie clumps through one witless if not wince-evoking sequence after another without the relief of laughter.
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33I guarantee you, if Charles Dickens were alive today, he might well be writing movies but he sure as shootin' wouldn't have written "Ghosts."
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30Ghosts indeed: This romantic comedy by name alone attempts to make funny – not to mention culturally relevant – the kind of swinging-dick misogyny that went out of fashion years ago.
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25Never comes as close as spitting distance to a laugh.
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25We don't needlessly hate on the romantic comedies, but this one takes the corniness and predictability of the genre to a whole new level.
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25Isn't just ordinarily lame, it easily exceeds any normal requirements for witless sleaze.
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Douglas is the only one who looks like he's actually having fun with the dim-witted script.
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20A bizarre conflation of chick flick and "A Christmas Carol."
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10A junky-looking romantic comedy that's neither remotely romantic nor passably comic.
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The relentless vulgarities in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past would be almost tolerable if they were amusing, but Mark Waters's direction is so tentative that the film's single laugh happens more than an hour in.
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0Ghosts of Girlfriends Past displays nary a wisp of life, let alone an afterlife.
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0Above all, it will make you long for a day when studio movies about relationships feel like they are by and for adults who have actually been in one.
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Shells5Its a chick flick don't have too many expectations.
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malop8They make a really nice couple, i enjoyed the movie and i would also recommend it.. even though it is a copy of a Christmas movie i think.