Okay, my one, single, overwhelming ISSUE with the movie was that we don't see Priestly return to his former getup at the end. Having him walk in all Banana-Republic was adorable, as it speaks to what a Big Deal this is for him and his personal insecurities and etc. But there was a huge gaping HOLE in the dialog there where she was supposed to say (some cuter and better written version of) "of course I'll go out with you, Priestly. Now go get out of that ridiculous getup." Predictable, yes, but necessary. Swapping out the "ridiculous names" exchange for that would have gone so far toward fixing the ending of the movie it isn't even funny.

I honestly don't think we're meant to assume that Priestly's makeover is in any way permanent, but the writer really fucked up by not making that explicit, especially given that he isn't back to his former self at the wedding-on-the-beach. By this point in the movie, our sympathies are far more fully with him than with her (cause Tish is an idiot made sympathetic only by how good she is to her girlfriends), and the lingering question is "does she deserve him?" And by letting the viewer think even for a moment that Tish would want or LET him change himself permanently for her, the writer just fucked up on that question.

Gah. This was the rant I was NOT going to do. (And yes, "everybody pairs off at the end" endings annoy the crap out of me even when they don't fuck up in a big way like that, but this movie thematically needed it and I wasn't going to rant. Man, failed there.)