What "She's the One" lacks in terms of charm or funny moments it makes up in irritating, annoying characters and ample moments of boredom. I just don't get what anyone sees in this film. The story is basically about a bunch of unhappy people that can't get a handle on their relationships, are all either cheating on each other, screwing up their marriages or plain unpleasant. Mickey (Edward Burns) has recently gotten married to Hope (Maxine Bahns) because he's insecure about his previous girlfriend/fiancé cheating on him. His brother Francis (Mike McGlone) is cheating on his wife (Jennifer Aniston) with the woman who broke Mickey's heart, Heather (Cameron Diaz). Giving them both lousy advice is their sexist father Frank (John Mahoney), whose wife is alive but never appears on-screen.
Admittedly, there are a few laughs here and there. There's a good bit where Ed Burns' character has to convince multiple people that he isn't gay and I thought that was funny. The film is well acted with some good dialog, which I also appreciate. What I didn't like was that the story focuses mostly on depressing, unlikeable people that try and solve their petty problems in the worst ways possible. You might be thinking that bad people trying to solve their problems and failing sounds funny, and it would be
but it's never done in the far-out way you would expect in a comedy. What we have here is more of a bunch of childish immature attempts that you would find Infuriating in real life, and not the least bit amusing on-screen. When I saw the two brothers settle an argument in an incredibly immature way that it isn't even clever because it ends in a tired joke you can see coming a mile away, I grew irritated. I know I was SUPPOSED to find it funny, but I simply did not. All of the men in the film are insecure and all of the women are frustrated and unhappy in their relationships. This would be fine if you saw them change and evolve. If you find a character annoying from the start though, he or she will be just as annoying at the end of the film. I just found it incredibly hard to cheer or be interested in these characters when they don't feel like real people; they don't really seem to have dreams or ambitions and can barely deal with the situation they've been given. It gets dull following them drift aimlessly.
I'm certain that there's some kind of audience for this picture and no matter how many times I've seen it, I can never see the appeal. If someone out there knows what the deal with "She's the One" is, please let me know because I still find it insufferable. (On DVD, January 1, 2013)
