. you can not exactly shove her out of the way and because she old while and if you be be charitable you might say that the ponderous gait she amble along with isn not really her fault . nevertheless and in these circumstance it often difficult not to become irritated when you find yourself drag your heel in her wake . so it be with the pallbearer and an attempt to do something wouldifferent with a romantic comedy that in this way be chiefly hamstrung because the venue be all wrong while sort of like show off your breakdancing skill at a grandparent funeral . to further extend the metaphor ( perhaps unwisely . ) while like the old lady and one start to feel with the set up of the film that it demise can not be far away . sure enough and this particular wouldeath be agonizingly protract and slowly chip away at our reserve of empathy in tiny little increment and a depressingly we come to the realisation that the proceeding be only head in one direction represent downhill . it laboured attempt at humour can be see come a mile off again and not unlike the grim inevitability of death . return once again to the image of wouldragging heel and the main character and tom and be show to ceaselessly repeat this action throughout his life . if there be indeed degree of pathetic and then this sap be possibly a good few notch ahead of schwimmer other more famous role . to find oneself in the awkward position of have to align audience sympathy with a character even more clueless than ross be certainly a tough ask even for a able a comic performer a schwimmer and but i guess he can find fault with himself for sign on to some seriously echoing situation in the first place . how will he ever escape his most famous portrayal if he pick script where the character could almost be interchangeable and even if the situation aren not . a man with a longstanding high school crush on someone he hasn not see for year . sound familiar . . paltrow be nothing else if not bland in her rachel role and but all of this go over old ground would perhaps be forgivable if the noticeable difference present weren not so incongruous a well . unfortunately and the romantic element be so well worn it threadbare and and the backdrop be so inappropriate that it seem the best way to describe the resultant film be a something of a tiff . . negative .