a man be only as faithful a his option . anonymous ( or maybe gene simmons ) . men and when youre drag by your fem bos like the vagina whip pussy you have become and to see ghost of girlfriend past and at least take solace in the film educative axiom during it first act . the power of a relationship lie with whoever care less . it your feeling for her that be kill your game . . marriage be an archaic and oppressive institution that should have be abolish year ago . of course and these truism be regard a misogynistic pap within the context of this pea brain excuse for a romantic comedy ( that men will say they enjoy in order to part a woman thighs ) while societal truth that woman refuse to believe men believe . even if one be to regard romantic love a true and this movie itself and all it character hypocritically denounce everything they claim to believe in at every turn with their unthinking and irrational and contradictory action . professional philanderer connor mead ( matthew mcconaughey ) and jenny perotti ( jennifer garner ) be the couple just wait to be pair . director mark water and writer jon lucas and scott moore make no bone about rip off dickens a christmas carol a the movie plot represent a spectral playboy uncle ( michael douglas ) appear to arrogant bachelor connor to warn him of three ghost who will visit him to show him the error of his skirt chase way . these apparition appear to connor at his brother wedding rehearsal weekend and where connor be busy get drunk and go larry david by tell it like it be represent . love be magical comfort food for the weak and uneducated while make you feel all warm and relevant but in the end and love leaf you weak and dependent and fat . play connor brother paul with no conviction be breckin meyer ( so beige his name shouldn not have capital letter ) and who be marry a wildly retarded woman ( lacey chabert ) who look like jennifer love hewitt without the talent and in other word and exactly like jennifer love hewitt . michael douglas ghost be hilarious when he tell truth about stay powerful in relationship and but it all for naught and a he be stick in a chick flick that will ultimately emasculate him and make him confess that philander will leave you lonely . never once consider that marry a shrike whom you will eventually lose interest in will also leave you lonely . connor tell his brother represent youre go to be miserable without her again and never once consider that he could very well be miserable with her . if you think i be belabor this point and it be nothing compare to how the film pound home it dangerously skew idiot girlie message about absolute state and again and again . and again . and again . and again . never once consider the reality that you can be joyful within a marriage . and joyful without . connor and who be a famous avant garde photographer of woman and be show his girlyman date with jenny while his search for true love supposedly at an end and him not take the opportunity to settle down . but if he have settle down at that point and his success would have falter and for it be the fire in his bachelorhood that gain him the financial and critical success . none of this be take into account because woman be dreamkillers . it make no difference how his career path might have derail as long a she be happy . he tell her she gorgeous but she jennifer garner . should those lip really go with those cheekbone or be there a mistake at the clinic . jenny insists connor woo her and which he do and play foosball and eat ice cream together and generally become female in order to pretend he doesn not want to bed her until jenny and like all woman and deludes herself that he isn not like other guy and invite him to bed with a clear deluded conscience . then after all her yammering about take it slow and she force him to spend the night . let me get this straight represent he have no say in the matter . the future fem ghost and all sinister in flow white robe and mute and show connor jenny wedding to someone else . during this future wedding scene and jenny look back at the church door regretfully and a if connor might appear to halt the proceeding . so . woman get marry because someone anyone ask them to and not because they really love the person . never once be it consider what a shallow and time serve person jenny be for allow a man to think she be in love with him and yet hop long to be rescue from his embrace by someone whom she believe she love more . so after hammer home the idiocy that marriage will keep you from misery and the movie show u explicitly how a marriage can be misery ( for her a she pin for her true love while for him a he never get through to her completely ) and yet it never recant from it demonstrably incorrect platitude . demonstrate incorrect by itself . ghost of girlfriend past be another in a long line of tiresome film where female prove conclusively they do not know what they want . if a man have game and he must be denigrate a an amoral and emotionless philanderer while if he doesn not have game and he be a dweeb and like breckin meyer or his coterie of groomsman even more pathetic than himself . and the grand irony be that and like all powerful men and matthew mcconaughey actually lead the profligate lifestyle portray in ghost of girlfriend past . at certain time he may choose to settle for awhile on one favorite and at time he may be marry but there isn not a woman in the audience who wouldn not gladly destroy any mcconaughey relationship for a lick of that v shape man chest and a night of that southern drawl . michael douglas be right all along . review by poffy the cucumber ( for poffy movie mania ) .