this film offer absolutely no imagination in it premise nor in it execution but these be just two thing that come to mind after watch this so called comedy that have no energy to speak of . story be about nit picky over analytical insurance risk manager reuben feffer ( ben stiller ) who find his new wife lisa ( debra messing ) cheat on him with a scuba instructor ( hank azaria ) after only one day on their honeymoon . upon return home reuben and his best friend sandy ( philip seymour hoffman ) go to a party and run into polly prince ( jennifer aniston ) whom they go to school with year earlier . spoiler alert polly be forgetful and sloppy and life carefree which be the opposite of who reuben be a a person but they start to date and reuben start to change a a person a he start to try out new thing such a salsa dancing and eating spicy food . but one day lisa come back and want to remain married to reuben but he really doesn not want to but polly decide to leave a she doesn not believe in marriage to begin with . this film be the second directing effort by john hamburg who write two generally unfunny screenplay in zoolander and meet the parent but those two film seem like classic compare to this stale piece of drivel . it very easy to say something be not funny but i think with this film it even easier to figure out why . this film be totally and utterly predictable from start to finish with every scene look a if it only happen because of the ridiculousness of the script . hamburg who also write the script seem to have write this without any thought of try something different and at time he seem to be try to generate the same energy a there something about mary but instead the event seem incredibly force . do anyone really think the blind ferret be funny . if you do and your easy . a few time during the film character would inexplicably have these emotional speech that be suppose to summarize everything but all they achieve be overstate the obvious . stiller work a lot but maybe he should work less and just wait for the good script to come his way because this film doesn not work a a comedy or a a romance .