![]() ![]() The first of the three ghosts, representing girlfriends past, is the most entertaining by far. It’s confirmed when he eventually tries to pick up all three female ghosts. He comes back from the grave to warn his nephew about the dangers of his choices, but it seems clear throughout the movie that this is a lesson that he hasn’t learned. Uncle Wayne is also the oddest part of this film. Like Marley, he explains that three spirits – the ghosts of his girlfriends past, present and future – will visit him to drive this lesson home. The dearly departed uncle now appears to Connor to warn him that the womanizing path he’s traveling will only lead to loneliness. As he puts it, “when it comes to dames, I got a gift.” Uncle Wayne, a Hugh Hefner wannabe while he walked the earth, raised Connor and Paul after their parents died. Played delightfully by Michael Douglas, Uncle Wayne taught young Connor everything he knows about women. She’s made it her mission to make sure Connor doesn’t spoil the engaged couple’s happiness.Įnter Uncle Wayne, who is to Connor what the ghostly Jacob Marley was to Scrooge. ![]() As it turns out, Connor’s first love, Jenni Perotti, played by Jennifer Garner, is a member of the wedding party. His first order of business upon arrival is to pull aside Paul, played by Breckin Meyer, and offer him the keys to his car so he can escape before it’s too late. Connor would rather “swim in a lake of sex” because love, as he describes it, “is just magical comfort food for the weak and uneducated.”Īfter wrapping up a photo shoot and adding another notch to his bedpost, Connor is off to his boyhood home for the rehearsal of his younger brother Paul’s wedding. He sleeps around with so many women that he has to break up with three of them simultaneously on a video conference call. Matthew McConaughey is Connor Mead, a popular photographer whose prime passion in life is seducing and leaving women. You can only hope the journey will be worth the trip to the expected destination. Anyone who’s read Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” or seen any of its cinematic variations knows exactly how it’s going to end. For me to tell you that the new romantic comedy “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” is a predictable movie is equally predictable. ![]()
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