I just caught the preview of the new romantic flick starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart – Love Happens. The romantic in me enjoys most romantic movies but ouch, having to sit through 1.5 hours of Love Happens left me aching and longing for the ending credits! Most romantic movies have a fail-proof plot but this had huge holes in its storyline and worse, no gorgeous eye-candy as their actor! Read on below for the synopsis and why I wouldn’t recommend Love Happens!

Synopsis of Love Happens

Aaron Eckhart plays Burke Ryan, a self-help motivation author who wrote his best-selling self-help book after his wife died in a tragic car accident. However, despite the seminars he conducts and the tips he gives people on how to move forward from sadness, he hasn’t really moved on himself from his wife’s death 3 years ago. In a week-long seminar in Seattle where he’s on the brink of signing a multi-million deal, he meets Eloise Chandler (is Chandler any subtle reference to Friends?!) played by Jennifer Aniston who supplies flowers to the hotel.

He approaches her, they date and he finds that she might just be the one to help him release his hurt. Will they get together? Will love happen in the least predictable circumstances?

Does it really matter? No, because the show drags too long on Burke finding himself then rushes it all the way to the end where out of nowhere, they end up falling for each other! Aaron Eckhart is terribly wooden and absolutely emotionless for someone who is supposedly grieving and later in love. If anything, he reminded me a lot of Guy Smiley from Sesame Street!

 

 As for Jennifer Aniston, she has definitely had better movies and this certainly isn’t one of her best. There isn’t any chemistry between the two and whatever potrayal of love in the movie seems pretty forced and superficial.

The only two things I enjoyed in the movie were the funny quirks Eloise had in writing uncommon words behind paintings and the music in the movie:

Quidnunc – a person who seeks to know all the latest news or gossip
Poppysmic – noise produced with smacking of the lips, from the Latin poppysma
Sesquipedalian – a person who loves to use long words