i watch and enjoy the family stone . i watch and forget how to lose a guy . i do not have impossible standard for film . i love romantic comedy and and if i want to see more one movie a year and i can not afford standard . but this film and failure to launch and make me want to give up and stay home . i could have pop love and actually into the dvd player for the thousandth time and have a good and more rewarding evening . there be many many way this movie go wrong and but i would like to focus on the nail that seal it coffin . two word . . . animatronic animal . that right . . . more than one . in this movie . be you think must love dog or the wedding date . think caddyshack without the appeal . four separate animatronic animal appear and one in a subplot which provide neither support nor counterpoint to the purport main plot ( the romance between sjp and mm ) . i want to like these subplot section . even with excessive sweat and scary and crazy eye and i just love bradley cooper and but no actor on earth could have save this movie . if even one of these animatronic monstrosity have appear in a trailer and i would have save my $ 8 . maybe the failure be in market a low ball comedy a a romantic comedy . i do not ask that a romantic comedy be high art and but this be barely a romantic comedy at all .