![]() ![]() Of course, the lack of quality of the movie itself is not the composer's fault, and he is bound to obey his director, but the inappropriate music is just one more thing that makes Ghosts of Girlfriends Past a waste of time. Directed by Mark Waters Comedy, Fantasy, Romance PG-13 1h 40m By Manohla Dargis ApA smear of petroleum jelly might have done wonders for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a. Matthew McConaughey plays a serial womanizer who is being haunted by the spirits of his ex-girlfriends including the one that got away: Jennifer Garner. ![]() Ghosts, in addition to being a broadly played comedy, is also nearly unwatchable junk, its only redeeming element being Michael Douglas' performance in a small part in which he does the best impersonation of Robert Evans since Dustin Hoffman's in Wag the Dog. Trouble is, the stakes aren't really high. Kent would blame his director, Mark Waters, who "wanted drama from this music, not just a romantic-comedy score but a sense that the stakes are high." Kent has accommodated him, providing orchestral music full of feeling with emotional highs and lows. Ghosts is a better score than 17 Again, particularly because it's a more consistent work than its scattershot partner, but, like 17 Again, it is hard to identify as music for a comedy. Amusement level slides rapidly from here on, as. A committed bachelor, he thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on. ![]() That's appropriate, since both scores were composed by Rolfe Kent, and he has taken a similar approach to each, in that he has taken his jobs way too seriously. (Emma Stone), who initiates the bashful kid after young Jenny (Christa B. Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and womenin that order. The experience changes his attitude and allows him to reconnect with his first and only love, Jenny. Silva Screen Records released the soundtrack album for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a romantic comedy in which a contemporary womanizer gets his comeuppance in the manner of Ebenezer Scrooge, on the same day that it issued the soundtrack album for 17 Again, another rom-com with a magical element. When notorious womanizer Connor Mead attends his brother Paul's wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of girlfriends past, present, and future, along with his deceased uncle. ![]()
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