I love a good romance. I even like a little tragedy in the mix. Personally I think it adds a little realism to the story. So I fully expected to love “PS. I Love You”. You have a tragic story of a young woman who loses her husband and has to rebuild her life and move on. Then you add in the fact that he is sending her messages from the great beyond (not at creepy as it sounds) to help her along her way and it sounds like a good story for a romance junky like myself.
That was far from the case. I will admit that I did watch this movie when I wasn’t the most awake but even first thing in the morning wouldn’t have changed the fact that the story seemed to drag on and the acting seemed forced and this is from award winning actresses. Look I am not the biggest Hilary Swank fan but when you win an Oscar twice people expect you to be good and when you come off one of the biggest television shows of our lifetime, Friends, people expect your characters to make sense. Yet both Swank and Lisa Kudrow were a little lost in this movie. Kudrow’s character, Denise, is searching for someone but instead of getting to know any of the men she approaches she ask them these series of questions and one wrong answer leads to her just walking away. Finally she finds someone who answers correctly and just kisses him and then you don’t see him again but like a minute later they are getting married. But at least she has a purpose.
Swank’s character, Holly, runs around following these instructions that her late husband has left her and most are really silly just because she promised a tape that she would. She has to love interest Harry Connick Jr. and Jeffrey Dean Morgan from “Grey’s Anatomy” fame but she doesn’t really have chemistry with either. The only character that makes sense is her mom plays by Kathy Bates. She seems the only grounded person within this whole thing.
This was so boring I didn’t even look at the extras because I was scared that they would run on just like the movie. Look far be it for me to tell anyone to get over their grief but this is one time that I found myself screaming GET OVER IT and move on. And that is what I would tell anyone thinking about renting or owning this, “Get over it and move on”.