The Proposal – Blu-ray Review

The Flick:

Sandra Bullock is fine. She has this everywoman sex appeal that’s topped off with a whole lot of hot. I don’t usually enjoy her movies, but I watch them just because I enjoy looking at her. She keeps making romantic comedies, even though I keep wishing she’d decide to make Wild Things 4: Cougars. In The Proposal she looks better than ever, showing off her curves, and finally getting matched up with a leading man worthy of her hotness…Ryan Reynolds.

Bullock plays publishing bigwig, Margaret Tate, a real witch of a woman that jumps at any chance she gets to mistreat her assistant, Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds). Not a single person in her office likes her, she’s a vile human being that cares only for herself. Then one day she is forced to bribe Andrew into marrying her so that she can keep her citizenship and not be sent back to Canada henceforth loosing her job. She follows Andrew home for a weekend getaway in Alaska, where of course the two complete opposites fall madly in love.

CUT TO: cliché after cliché.

I’m not gonna harp on the flick’s problems because even with all the romantic comedy clichés I actually enjoyed the The Proposal. Reynolds and Bullock have a strong chemistry that works in both of their favors, and like I said in the above paragraph, Sandra looks smoking hot in this flick (even in the hideous wedding dress). There are plenty of leading men in Hollywood, but I’m really starting to dig Ryan Reynolds. He takes takes on different types of roles and even when the flicks aren’t so good, he’s good in them.

Overall, The Proposal doesn’t really offer up anything new to the romantic comedy genre, but it wasn’t a complete bust either. I don’t know if I’d call it a killer film, but I’d definitely recommend renting it on date night.

The Blu-ray:

Audio/Video

The 5.1 DTS audio mix is solid. It sounded great on my home theatre and the video, while nothing special is still nice to look it. The landscape footage looks fantastic, but the interior scenes seem a little warm.

Special Features

Commentary: This is a pretty standard commentary track that I found myself wanting to fast forward through only moments after it started.

Deleted Scenes: Nothing special here. Just scenes that were cut because they didn’t really add anything to the finished film.

Set Antics: Outtakes and Other Absurdities From the Proposal: This is a simi-enjoyable mix of footage and excerpts from the set. This was almost cool.

Alternate Ending: A terrible ending that wasn’t used for good reason.

Theatrical Trailer: The prerequisite trailer is on here and for the first time since I started Killer Film, it’s the best thing about the special features.

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