I like a good cheesy romantic comedy, but it has to have some redeeming qualities or I’ll feel like a fool for wasting an hour and a half sitting in a chair watching someone else’s idea of entertainment instead of spending quality time reading random crap on the Internet.

There are too many clichés in this modern twist on Cyrano de Bergerac. There’s the successful career woman who is pining for a man to make her life complete, the tough womanizer who yearns for the love of a good woman, and a stupid contrived scenario that brings them together inevitably in the end. It’s not cute and looks like it will go down like dry toast. Katherine Heigl should be reduced to working on these type of shit films, but I’d like to think Gerard Butler is better than this. He did do that awful dead love letter movie with Hillary Swank, though. Times are tight and actors are working where they can. People also aren’t willing to shell out good money to see rehashed plots that we can watch for free on the Lifetime channel, flipping to better shows and watching amusing YouTube videos when it gets slow.

I asked for feedback on this trailer, and my friends on facebook and twitter are divided. 2/3 agree that it’s annoying. Holly mentions that there’s “no believable chemistry between Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler” and that Heigl only does one Izzy-type character. Agent Bedhead reminds us that Heigl is insufferable and also notes the lack of chemistry between the leads. She says that Butler is heading toward overexposure. While he’s still on the right side of that precipice for me, this film will surely push him off it. Tiffany says the trailer is kind of charming though and that this movie looks good for a typical chick flick despite the fact that she usually can’t stand Heigl. What do you think?