Because
- It’s funny enough to make you pee
- It stars the very pretty Santiago Cabrera (who looks just wrong without a beard and moustache)Â and the gorgeous and lost-too-soon Brittany Murphy
- It’s a story about a gay best friend which won’t make you cringe, and actually puts him and his needs and his romance ahead of the female lead’s
- Tango!
- Catherine Tate is hilarious, and her double act with Stephanie Beacham is a scream
- It uses modern London as a backdrop very nicely (please to be excusing the blatant bullshit about how Heathrow and registry office marriages work)
- It includes the most accurate description of the stages of a relationship I’ve ever heard
Therapist: Relationships are best measured by farting.
Peter Simon: Excuse me?
Therapist: The stages of a relationship can be defined by farting. Stage one is the conspiracy of silence. This is a fantasy period where both parties pretend that they have no bodily waste. This illusion is very quickly shattered by that first shy, “Ooh, did you fart,” followed by the sheepish admission of truth. This heralds a period of deeper intimacy. A period I like to call the “Fart Honeymoon”, where both parties find each other’s gas just the cutest thing in the world. But, of course, no honeymoon can last forever. And so we reach the critical fork in the fart. Either the fart loses its power to amuse and embarrass thereby signifying true love, or else it begins to annoy and disgust, thereby symbolizing all that is blocked and rancid in the formerly beloved. Do you see what I’m getting at?
I recommend seeing it like I did, with good friends, but perhaps without the attention-seeking three year old. Booze definitely an option 🙂