Cause I'd never heard of it until I stumbled upon it at my local library's "Help Us Get Rid Of Stuff That Nobody's Checked Out In Over 4 Years" sale.......
Even as I write this, somewhere there's some shlubby, sad sack writer-director who's pounding out a script about his Crash-'N-Burn love affair with a beautiful girl way, way, way out of his league........
Mercifully, most of these screenplays will stay safely in their writers' lower desk drawers, atop a pile of rejection slips.
Every so often......one escapes. Exhibit A: this movie.
To their credit, the filmmakers who take a whack at this peculiar genre never objectify the girl. In fact, she comes fully equipped with her own quirks, issues, deep-seated anxieties and personal goals....
And so begins the long painful road to the inevitable break-up, strewn with misunderstandings, mis-construed arguing and a host of cringe-inducing "That's-not-what-I-meant" moments......
You know the drill. The too-witty-for-his-own-good shlub is going to end up sadder, wiser......and single, And his Dreamgirl? Off to a more fulfilling career and classier, richer boyfriends......
I'll say this much.......the 90 minutes of writer-director Brian Klugman's doomed romance with Adrianne Palicki comes out far more digestible than the 34 Netflix "Love" episodes, detailing writer Paul Rust's non-stop cringe-o-rama with Gillian Jacobs, (see previous BQ posts)
Of course, the best of these little episodes doesn't even feature actors at all......but our favorite star-crossed romantic couple.....a male and female preying mantis......(writers' favorite metaphor for the dangers of random sex....)
Without those min-skits, I'd barely scrape up half a star for the babyish "Baby Baby Baby"........but with them, 2 stars (**). As for any of you lonely guys, hunched over your laptops tapping out that tale of how you lost that beautiful funny girl.......spare us. Please. We're all begging you.......
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