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The film The Graduate is a classic, as is the novel on which it was based. Beau Burroughs is the man the novel was supposed to be about. Initially, he has an affair with a woman in her forties, only to soon sleep with her daughter. However, the story doesn't end there; we fast forward about thirty years and discover that in the generation of two women, there is another girl who wants to find out if Beau Burroughs might be her father. The comedy with Jennifer Aniston isn’t really about searching for a father, as that is resolved quite quickly, but rather about discovering what one's place is in the city where she herself wants to be. The film essentially says that if you are unsure whether your upcoming wedding is truly with the right person, sleep with the guy who has already been with your grandmother and mother, and it will help out a lot. Your fiancé will forgive you everything; after all, Beau Burroughs is still Kevin Costner, and Mark Ruffalo is once again a bit of a pushover. It’s not about relationships at all; it’s just that one woman is uncertain, has a little fun, and everything will be forgotten. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. However, according to this definition, Vegas is her entire life. She can make whatever bad decisions she wants, but in the end, everything is forgiven because she is a beautiful Hollywood woman. A guy waits for her, plays hard to get, but ultimately falls into her arms. Not even a few good jokes, the excellent yet overly caricatured Shirley MacLaine, or the charismatic Kevin Costner can save it. Jennifer Aniston has quietly settled into her usual confines with this film, playing about as much as a hockey player on the bench with a skate in the sharpener. She wears the jersey, the pads, everything, but still can’t score. It lacks drive. I'm not saying that comedy must uphold certain values, but I feel that this film tries to do that in a very strange way. (02/03/2013)

Jennifer Aniston tends to stick to her comfort zone—rom-coms about relationships and boyfriends. I generally like her movies, but let’s be real, most of them hover around average. The quality usually depends on who she’s paired with, and while I’m a fan of both Mark Ruffalo and Kevin Costner, even they couldn’t lift this one out of mediocrity. And then there’s the humor, which is pretty sparse here. So yeah, it’s a film that won’t offend or impress, with the only real highlight being Jennifer herself. (11/12/2011)

I'm not very wise to the moral lesson of the film. A decently cast, otherwise mediocre Aniston film peppered with a hogwash line of grandmother, mother and daughter. (22/06/2019)