I'm With Lucy -- 2002 -- R

Well, it was high time for another chick flick to cross my path, and this time, I got a tale about a woman who recalls five blind dates she had over the previous year, and early on, we learn that she is marrying one of them.

This is a very simple romantic comedy that despite its five simultaneous date stories, it is very easy to follow and understand what is going on. Through these dates, we get a sense of who Lucy is and her character traits. Each date she goes on exhibits one aspect of her personality. We get drunk/wishful, sexual/professional, asexual/cultural, family/angry, and jealous/societal. Those are the most prominent characteristics displayed anyway, though others are thrown in related to those. It is a very clever way to go through someone's personality and character quickly and easily.

The guy she ends up with ends up fairly decently developed as well, which most of the guys turn out one dimensional. Even with these five dates making up the bulk of the film, we still get the classic RomCom structure of the inevitable separation from perfect guy at the third act mark and she has to decide who is right during the last quarter of the film leading up to the final wedding.

The only confusing point here has nothing to do with the film; why was this film rated R? The blurb at the beginning states "some sexuality." There's a slim outburst of profanity near the end, and some implied sex throughout one bit, but R? I've seen PG movies more risque than this one. Seriously, this is not R material. Likely, the 'F' word was spouted one too many times in a single scene. With that exception, the film has no profanity, no nudity, and only the relationship bits would give it a PG-13 at most. R? Someone made a mistake there.

RomCom's seem to be a very easy genre to not go wrong in as the story flows very easily and simplistically without a plot hole I could find immediately. Some of the dates end, but what happens with the guys feels a little unresolved, but the main plot satisfies well enough.