"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" 舊愛找麻煩

So essentially it is McConaughey once again playing to type – this time as high-end fashion photographer Connor Mead, happily breezing through more women than you'd find in the Manhattan phone book. A Webcam breakup with three girls at once is possibly the worst of it. Did I mention there are no angels here?

But lest you dismiss "Ghosts" as just another frothy sexual romp for the sun-kissed, ab-sculpted star, there is an actual cautionary tale here. For Connor, it's the painful realization that being an unrepentant playboy might not be the best life plan. For McConaughey it's the hard truth that his young hunk days are ending.

In "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," the occasion of his brother Paul's (Breckin Meyer) wedding kicks things off as the dearly departed return to force Connor to question his life in the fast lane. (Why is it that friends and relatives, dead or alive, choose weddings to settle old scores?)

Soon Connor is on a travesty tour of all the women he has wronged – they are legion – conducted primarily by the tag team of Connor's late Lothario/mentor, Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), and the first girl he slept with, Allison Vandermeersh (Emma Stone). This is where the movie hits a low with its endless tales of his mindless seduction of let's just call them the disposable femmes. A little nuance would have gone a long way. And whoever put McConaughey in that really bad shoulder length hair piece (or extensions, whatever) for his trip down memory lane should be banished from blow-dry land, forever.

Back in the real world, Connor is having to deal with his childhood sweetheart Jenny – a smart and sassy Jennifer Garner – who's running point as the maid of honor. She is serious about this wedding, and he is seriously not, sparks fly and they're not just the bad kind. McConaughey and Garner are a lot of playful fun together, good counterweights of sense and nonsense as would-be loves and the temperature rises every time they're on-screen together.

The movie takes its time working through all of Connor's arrested development issues. While he's busy with that, including figuring out whether or not he still cares for Jenny, a clever, handsome and available physician named Brad (Daniel Sunjata from "Rescue Me") enters. A rival, and then the possibility of redemption when the ghosts of girlfriends present and future join the party. Connor may not see where all this is going, but we definitely do.

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