The Baxter is a charming little movie. I certainly felt like it was 90 minutes un-wasted.
The conceit of the movie is an interesting one -- Elliot Sherman (played by writer-director Michael Showalter of The State and Stella) is the nice-but-bland guy who always gets the girl stolen away by the romantic lead at the end of the movie. And he's realizing, in a not-quite-realizing-he's-in-a-movie way, that he is that guy. And so he's determined not to lose his fiancee to her high-school sweetheart who's suddenly returned to town. But is she really the one for him anyway? (I'm not giving anything away that isn't obvious in the first 5 minutes of the movie.)
As with most romantic comedies, it's all pretty obvious, but it's still a very sweet little movie.
FuzzyCo grade: A
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oh my gosh that's one of my favorite movies of all time! It's so adorable.
"What'd ya get there? You went for the forty? Aww yeah, don't get me started on my college days. I put one of these away myself."
Posted by: Crescent | August 7, 2008 10:05 AM