The glamourous life of a film critic and spending more time
at the cinemas than I do awake in my own house means that I actually understand
very little of regular human interaction. That said, knowing how awkward social
situations can get to start with, I still understand why meeting the potential
in-laws is as nerve-wracking as it is. In fact, again with my lack of
experience in the matter in mind, it’s possibly the most awkward prospect of
any courtship and the myriad of possibilities (or even just the fear of those
possibilities) can lead to quite a bit of misery. As any good comedian knows,
misery makes for good comedy, and sure enough that scenario has made for pretty
decent rom-com material for many a decade now. Yeah, it may be old hat by now
but it has given birth to some good chuckles in the past. Of course, I didn’t realise exactly how old hat it was
until I sat down to watch this thing.
