Rom Bombs

It’s summertime, and that can only mean one thing: it’s teen comedy time! This time we discuss “What a Girl Wants,” the 2003 Amanda Bynes vehicle wherein she plays an ordinary American teen who finally meets her aristocratic British dad (Colin Firth) and just doesn’t fit in. You might call it a “fish out of water” scenario, but that incorrectly implies that there is a milieu in which Amanda Bynes’s character would be at home. It’s more like a “fish out of water but also the fish is allergic to water and falls down a lot” scenario.

Join us as we discuss more bad New Yawk accents, Colin Firth dancing in leather pants, a daughter who clearly inherited her total lack of situational awareness from her mother, Colin Firth dancing in leather pants, a musical Chekhov’s gun that never goes off, an uncomfortably romantic father-daughter reunion, and Colin Firth dancing in leather pants. Did we mention that Colin Firth dances in leather pants in this movie?

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Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com

We're back, baby! With worse audio quality than ever! E messed up her audio inputs so it sounds like she's recording at the bottom of a well, and J got a new microphone and is still adjusting. But you won't care about our sonic peccadilloes once we dig into "New in Town," the 2009 romcom that, like an Olympic diver scoring perfect tens, made no splash whatsoever. Renee Zellweger is the workaholic city girl who moves to a small Minnesota town, and Harry Connick Jr. is the laid-back country boy who teaches her how to loosen up, via hunting trips, tapioca fights, and telling her that his wife is dead.

How do unions work? Why would a dairy company be headquartered in Miami? We don't know, and neither does this movie.

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Theme music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com

In this episode, we tackle The Wedding Planner, the 2001 Jennifer Lopez/Matthew McConaughey romcom that asks “what if a wedding planner fell in love with the groom of the wedding she’s planning?” and, secondarily, “what if Jennifer Lopez were Italian?” Join us for a lengthy discussion that includes such important topics as:

-What a wedding planner’s job duties do and do not include
-“Italian” accents that really feel like revenge for our complaints about Richard Gere’s accent in the previous episode
-First-draft quirks that should have been replaced in rewrites
-Blatant medical malpractice
-Possible runaway horse malpractice?

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Music: “Our Big Adventure” by scottholmesmusic.com

Ah, Spring. The time when a young woman's fancy turns to abandoning yet another man at the altar. In this episode, we discuss Runaway Bride, the 1999 movie wherein Garry Marshall tried to replicate the magic of Pretty Woman and instead pulled a dead dove out of his sleeve. Join us as we discuss Richard Gere's needlessly bad New Yawk accent, what a journalist is (and isn't), and our undying love of Joan Cusack. Stay as we worry about the welfare of Richard Gere's character's cat.

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Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com

We're still alive! It's a new year, which means a fresh slate, which means a new opportunity to talk about a Reese Witherspoon movie. This time it's "Home Again," a 2017 romcom in which a divorcee takes in three wayward young filmmakers and... some stuff happens? I guess? Join us as we try to diagnose where exactly this movie went wrong, and in the process discuss our favorite Nancy Meyers movies, E's continuing distrust of tall characters, our surefire crying triggers, and yet more bad American accents.

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Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com

Here’s a little holiday gift for you! In this bonus episode, we discuss Christmas music: the songs we like, the songs we hate, and what Christmas music in general means to us, two women who do not celebrate Christmas. Plus, E debuts a new version of “Santa Baby” that is sure to fill your heart with holiday joy.

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Music: “Our Big Adventure” by scottholmesmusic.com

In this episode we go back to our roots, as we discuss the sequel to "The Princess Switch," which was very first movie that we covered, two whole years ago! "The Princess Switch 2: Switched Again" has it all: unrequested matchmaking, a flour fight, a recast child role, a Christmas decorating montage, magic(???), a bland white guy wandering around pointlessly, a coronation, a strangely aggressive balloon drop, a spacetime paradox, and THREE — count 'em, three — Vanessa Hudgenses. Truly we are blessed. This is our fourth Vanessa Hudgens movie so far and we won't stop. This is now the Hudgecast.

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Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com

In this episode, we discuss “Holidate,” the Netflix original romcom that coasts on its stars’ charisma like a brick on a dry Slip’n’Slide. Join us in our bafflement and outrage as we attempt to answer questions such as:

-Is Emma Roberts a bad actress?
-Was this screenplay written in the 90s and tabled for 25 years?
-Which holidays actually call for a date? Probably not St. Patrick’s Day, right?
-How?
-No, really, how did this movie happen?

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Music: “Our Big Adventure” by scottholmesmusic.com

In this episode, we return to the font of bad romcoms that was 1999 to talk about "Never Been Kissed," the movie about a 25-year-old woman who pretends to be a 17-year-old girl but acts like an 8-year-old, and the 30-year-old man who falls in love with her. Romantic, right?

Join us as we ask why this movie thinks proms are costume parties, marvel at the chemistry between Josie and her brother, and reminisce about our own prom and for some reason our elementary school plays.

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Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com

In this episode, we tackle "Love, Guaranteed," a new Netflix original rom-com that blew its budget on 3 semi-famous actors and had nothing left over for other cast members or any sort of script editing. It's from the same team who brought us "Falling Inn Love," but this movie will make you long for what by comparison was an ensemble cast and intricate plot twists. Join us as we critique the screenwriters' understanding of the law, enumerate the movie's many clichés, and wonder whether it's possible for a rom-com to NOT frame being single as a fate worse than death.

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Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com