the spiderwick chronicle director mark water helm this highly amusing and scrooge type spin on romance . scenarist jon lucas and scott moore of the hangover furnish some frankly hilarious dialogue . arrogant playboy bachelor photographer and connor mead ( matthew mcconaughey of failure to launch ) and dump three woman during a conference call when he feel that they be complicate his lifestyle . our protagonist think love be a myth . he oppose marriage on any ground later to his childhood sweetheart jenny perotti ( jennifer garner of juno ) when they collide with each other again at the wedding rehearsal dinner for his kid brother paul ( breckin meyer of road trip ) and future wife sandra ( lacey chabert of black christmas ) in newport . as far a connor see it and marriage be an archaic and oppressive institution that should have be abolish year ago . a for love and connor reviles it a magical comfort food for the weak and the uneducated . furthermore and he insist love leaf you weak and dependent and and fat . a bespectacled michael douglas enter the action about 18 minute later steal the show a connor recently decease uncle wayne . connor be stand in the men room when uncle wayne materialize at a urinal and relieve himself . when connor try to touch him to prove that uncle wayne be only a figment of his imagination and uncle wayne shrink away from him represent don not touch a man when he be hang a wire . the worldly and wise and but very dead uncle wayne have return to help connor mend his way . tonight and he inform connor and thing be gon na change . uncle wayne explain represent tonight youre go to be visit by three ghost . wayne assures connor and and youre go to be force to feel thing that you haven not felt for a long time . later and when connor go to his bedroom for a rendezvous and he find red head allison vandermeersh ( emma stone of superbad ) wait for him . allison be connor first sexual score . she tell connor she plan to take him back through allhis past girlfriend and help him figure out how he get his head stick so far up his hindquarter . we learn that jenny give connor his first camera and and connor pursuit and initial loss of jenny prompt him to seek advice from uncle wayne . year later connor hook up with jenny and make the mistake of not snuggle with her after sex . he sneak off into the night and she doesn not speak to him again until ten year afterward when they meet at paul wedding . not sooner have allison the ghost of girlfriend past leave him than his girl friday melanie ( noureen de wulf of the good represent live hard and sell hard ) appear a the ghost of girlfriend present . the real problem with the ghost of girlfriend past be that mcconaughey and jennifer garner lack charismatic chemistry a a couple . this be basically a conservative and republican style stab at marriage that spout anti gay ideology . the wed cake scene be funny and mcconaughey be well cast a a callous stud with lot of eye candy babe parade around him . lacey chabert be good a the bride who be marry mcconaughey brother . the action transpire during a snowy weekend for our hero brother wedding . a marine sergeant volkom and robert forster of jackie brown play the bride father who marry his daughter and and anne archer still look mighty fetching a his divorced wife vonda volkom .