Reuben Feffer is a risk analyst for a high-end insurance company and he is the best there is at it. Part of the reason he is so good at it, is that he avoids all possible risk in his own life in what many would view as obsessive compulsive. But he has found the perfect girl in Lisa one that shares his adversity to risk and seems to understand him completely. That’s why after a four-year courtship they have finally tied the knot and gotten married. But Reuben’s best-laid plans for life and love come crashing down when his bride dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscle-bound scuba instructor. Stunned, humiliated and in the grip of acute indigestion, Reuben plans to play it safer than ever. But life sometimes finds away to ruin even the best laid plans as a chance encounter with an adventure-craving, childhood friend named Polly shoots him into a whirlwind of extreme sports, spicy foods, ferrets, salsa dancing and living in the moment. So now Reuben finds himself dating a woman that is the exact opposite of himself and she takes chances at every turn while Reuben has done his best to avoid any uncertainty. Now Reuben must decide if this girl is right for him and whether he can change the way he views life or whether to fall back on the tried and true and go back once more to his safe life.

I don’t know what Ben Stiller is thinking but he cannot seem to get past these two dimensional parts and always seems to be playing the same character. Granted he was funny in Meet the Parents and Duplex but that was more the rest of the cast then himself and it was bound to happen where he signed onto another role like this that did not have a supporting cast to save him. In fact the rest of the cast made him look like an acting genius they were that bad. Jennifer Aniston should never make movies and be should just be happy to play TV roles as she is a very bad actor that just seems to pull down any movie she is in. While Philip Seymour Hoffman was an incredible train wreck that just seemed to smash against the screen like garbage being checked at a canvas. The combination of Aniston and Hoffman was so incredibly bad it amazes me that some casting director is not being strung up as we speak. Granted the movie had a few funny moments but these were more light chuckle laughs and never really moved from not making me grimace. In fact at one point the movie had to throw in a bathroom scene ala Dumb and Dumber because I think they ran out of ideas and said hey weird bathroom noises are funny aren’t they, maybe for an eleven year old they are. Ben Stiller needs to wake up and realize that other actors have helped him be funnier than he is and in the future pick a more suitable role that he can pull off and most definitely make sure he never works with Aniston and Hoffman again as long as he lives. A bust.
1 stars out of 5