Do screenplay writers ever stop and look at what they are writing, and go, ‘Wow, this is full of shit and I can’t believe we are going to feed this to the audience!’?

Sure – movies are all about the bigger picture, the things we aspire for, the glossy stuff out there that seems within reach for us everyday people but surely there has to be an element of logic to it? The Accidental Husband has to be the most inane piece of romantic comedy I’ve seen in a long time.

- Mild Spoiler alert-

The crux of my argument (and why I have given just one star to the movie): What makes a woman so grounded in her belief about the rules of love and who is seemingly in a stable relationship throw it all away for the charm of someone she barely knows? Is this how relationships work?

Never does Emma (played by Uma Thurman) stop and introspect on her relationship and what she wants out of her partner and a marriage. Her character is just there, passive and waiting to be pushed into these situations where she’s swooped into a kiss, an embrace, into a supposed happy ending. And she makes these decisions based on what exactly? Never does she fall in love with Patrick inasmuch as falls out of love with her fiance – but the reasons are never clearly explored. It just happens! Like magic! Like high school puppy dog love!

There are some beautiful movies that explore the dilemma of being in love vis a vis that of being in a relationship or a marriage, and there’s some equally bad movies about the same. But this is nowhere.

The whole premise of the movie being based on the “accident”, which you discover in the first half hour of the movie – after which its neither funny, nor romantic nor original.

I adore Uma Thurman and Colin Firth. But even they couldn’t save the movie!