Lots and lots of physical comedy in this movie, but it was very funny. Ryan Reynolds stars in the role of Chris. In high school he was an overweight "loser" who was in love with Jamie (Amy Smart), a beautiful cheerleader. When he finally gets up the nerve to confess his feelings to her, she tells him she just wants to be friends.
Ten years later, Chris has transformed himself. He has lost weight and become a successful music executive in LA. Circumstances bring him back home to New Jersey (with an extremely self-absorbed musician, Samantha, in tow), and he encounters his high-school crush for the first time in ten years. So again he tries to win her over, and again it's not easy. Many obstacles present themselves. Samantha is anxious to get to Paris, and Chris keeps trying to distract her with the help of his younger brother, who is only too happy to spend time with the gorgeous Samantha. Chris also has competition, another would-be suitor from high school who has recently moved back to town. His rival, Dusty, is a paramedic who encounters Jamie and Chris when Chris injures himself playing ice hockey (he had wanted to show Jamie just how much his ice skating had improved, but it didn't quite work out like he had hoped). So Chris is in the ambulance with Dusty on one side and Jamie on the other, barely able to move or speak, while Dusty and Jamie are exchanging phone numbers. Talk about frustrating.
So like I said, there was lots of physical comedy, of which the injury on the ice is one example. Chris is generally a clutz, and then there are the regular pummelings he and his brother give each other. I don't always like physical comedy, but Reynolds makes it work. The movie isn't terribly deep, but funny enough to make up for that.
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