Though it pretends to stick up for all the schmucks in the world, the film is really just laughing along with the assholes.
The film is lazily content to simply put its female characters through the potty-mouthed, gross-out comedy ringer.
This is a film that lives in the high and not in the comedown, even though its characters are often stalled and wallowing.
How to sell a Keira Knightley period romance and still distinguish it from every other Keira Knightley period romance?