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Movie Review: The Proposal


Genre: Romantic Comedy

Plot:
When high-powered book editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

Review:

The Proposal is a total feel good and heart warming movie. If you love Sandra Bullock and have fun with Ms. Congeniality, then this is a must watch movie for you. This is also her comeback after a long absence from a romantic comedy. It was rumored that the Margaret Tate role of Sandra Bullock was supposedly played by Julia Roberts but for some reasons Sandra got the role.

Anyway, I like Sandra Bullock, especially in Speed and Ms. Congeniality. She can be smart, tough, and funny then transforms to a vulnerable woman in an instant.

n The Proposal, Sandra Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a high-powered book editor. She’s the slave-driving bitch in the eyes of her co-employees in their publishing company. Ryan Reynolds plays Andrew Paxton, the assistant of Margaret. The hook of the movie was when Margaret forced Andrew to marry her just to save her from being deported to Canada and when they went to Andrew’s home in Alaska to inform his family that they are getting married. From there, she discovers that Andrew belongs from a rich family, most of the business in the town of Sitka, Alaska was owned by their family plus he lives in a big mansion, to think that Andrew was only her assistant.

The movie has its share of laughs as Margaret gets into awkward situations caused by their supposedly sham marriage. The old grandma of Andrew also adds fun to the movie she’s so cool and funny.

At first, I thought the ex-girlfriend of Andrew was the hindrance in their growing affection to each other but as the story goes, it was the father of Andrew. The ex-girlfriend of Andrew is not really a threat to Margaret.

I don’t like the immigration official who follows them up to the Alaska just to prove that their engagement is a fraud.

It is very entertaining movie and there are lots of comedic moments. I wont spoil the ending for those who haven’t seen the movie, but it is a happy one!


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