So, this movie was different than what I expected. It was much more serious, but still pretty good. Paul Rudd and Tina Fey were both good (as was expected), and their chemistry was pretty good. I'm just not entirely sure I really liked the different plot.
So, my expectation, which came from the trailer, was that it would be a funny movie about a quirky admissions officer's falling in love despite herself while traveling around the country to do her job. The movie wasn't exactly different from that, but the focus really changed from being on the weird/stressful admissions job to an interesting plot twist that explains the guarded nature of Tina Fey and also turns her into a bad admissions officer (but a good person).
Like I said, the twist was good for character development and definitely pushed the story along to make it a little more than your average romantic comedy. However, I'm not entirely sure I actually liked it. I don't really know what it was. Maybe it was the fact that Tina Fey's character let one moment ruin her life. Maybe it was the fact that that one thing continued to mess up her life (she does not end the movie as an admissions officer). Maybe it's because it "shine a light" on the shitty admissions process that made me uncomfortable having gone through two cycles of rejections thus far. I'm not really sure. All I can say is I left the theater unsatusfued with the movie, and that dissatisfaction was not because of the acting, the jokes, the seriousness, or the ending.
It wasn't a movie where I laughed the WHOLE time, but it was pretty dang funny. But seriously, how could it not be with the leads? I have yet to really hate (or not laugh in) a movie with Paul Rudd as the lead (I haven't seen This Is Forty yet, so I'm not saying it doesn't exist). Tina Fey is funny too. But since this had a serious turn, there were also definitely moments where I could not laugh.
I the end, I give this a 6 out of 10. Not great, but not bad.
