The Proposal

... I do have to admit that I did laugh a few times.

Simple and clichéd, yet refreshing. As long as you're hell-bent on seeing a romantic comedy, The Proposal will deliver.

They may as well have called this one 'Mis-Matched Sham Wedding Comedy #57513' for all the effort it makes to shake new life out of a tattered genre.

One minute you're watching a 21st-century remake of His Girl Friday, the next you're having to endure some awful, dumbed-down "women's picture". Bullock deserves better.

Sandra Bullock is teamed up with Ryan Reynolds, and each star's face has a waxy immobility that has nothing to do with Botox; the pure awfulness of the script has paralysed their facial muscles.

There are a [number of] really fun comedic set pieces in the film, and that's what makes it an entertaining movie.

It delivers on the laughs and the star power

While The Proposal is an enjoyable, funny, and at times endearing movie, it leaves you frustrated with how jealously it conforms to the genre's conventions.

...The Proposal remains a funny comedy.