The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 139
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 103
A retread of A Christmas Carol, featuring Matthew McConaughey in a retread of his Dazed and Confused role, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past lacks originality, humor, and any semblance of charm.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 24
A retread of A Christmas Carol, featuring Matthew McConaughey in a retread of his Dazed and Confused role, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past lacks originality, humor, and any semblance of charm.
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past -- the Mark S. Waters-directed fusion of A Christmas Carol with a traditional romantic comedy -- stars Matthew McConaughey as Connor Mead, a famous photographer and confirmed womanizer. He takes a break from his playboy lifestyle to attend his brother's wedding, where he becomes reacquainted with Jenny Perotti (Jennifer Garner), the only girl who ever captured his heart. After Connor delivers a drunken speech at the rehearsal dinner where he says that love isn't real,
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Matthew McConaughey
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Jennifer Garner
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Michael Douglas
Uncle Wayne -
Breckin Meyer
Paul Mead -
Lacey Chabert
Sandra Volkom -
Emma Stone
Allison Vandermeersh -
Anne Archer
Vonda Volkom -
Robert Forster
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Amanda Walsh
Denice the Bridesmaid -
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All Critics (142) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (106) | DVD (9)
This movie I think really did the impossible. It makes Failure To Launch look like The Thin Man.
Top CriticIt's a tired premise with some even weaker gags.
Just in case you can't get enough of the romantic comedy oeuvre of Matthew McConaughey, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is here to remind you that, yes, some films of his are even worse than Failure to Launch, Surfer Dude, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
I'm almost embarrassed to admit I found Ghosts of Girlfriends Past the season's first genuine guilty pleasure.
Only two characters might qualify as sympathetic.
Please, ladies, don't go see this movie. (Chances are most men would rather put out their eyes than go see a film with such a title.)
This flawed, fractured fairy tale fails to scare up many chuckles or much charm. As Ebenezer Scrooge himself might say, "Bah, humbug!"
it's the ghosts that steal the show
A parade of clumsy slapstick, unerring homophobia, and Big Fat Life Lessons.
Predictable romcom has some iffy stuff, but OK for teens.
As superficial and melodramatic as one might've expected...
A deluge of dim jokes and rote romantic interludes between Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner that are intended to recall Charle's Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." God help us all.
We can see practically every move, every action, every twist and turn a mile away. (Blu-ray Edition)
Matthew McConaughey proves better than the material put before him in the intermittently intriguing Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Ideally, you want to see the male and female leads end up together in a romantic comedy; if not, it all starts to become kind of creepy.
Although there are some sweetly sentimental moments, they are not nearly enough to redeem what is otherwise a fairly mean-spirited film.
A get even sex addiction comedy, with some quickie laughs, that retools the basics of A Christma Carol, but comes off like a commitment challenged Scrooge on Viagra. And what's with the PG-13, is this meant as a manual for underage two-timers in training?
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- Uncle Wayne: We're ghosts, baby. We're ageless.
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