As much as I love Zach Braff, I am never eating anything at his house, judging by his Eggs Benedict. When an English teacher (Gordon) in New York falls in love with a French-Canadian chef, Sophie, who gets offered the chance of her dream career in Quebec, he has a choice to make.
Thankfully, he is about as amiable and pleasant as humanly possible.
Now, Braff is as helplessly charming as always, but this is a romantic comedy in the loosest sense of the word. It does have its moments and Braff is trying really hard to pull off both elements, with limited success, comedically speaking, supported by some curious casting of Evelyn Brochu as Sophie, Vanessa Hudgens and William Fichtner as faces you will no doubt recognise.
The story of course drags this couple to her family home in Quebec, where Gordon meets all of her coven, some eclectic, some less so, which he hopes to become his own, with secret intentions (and his mothers engagement ring).
Overall, this is quite sweet and completely harmless, unlikely to offend anyone on the planet, such is the overbearing and safe vanilla approach to storytelling on display. Rarely actually funny unfortunately, miserably failing on the five laugh test and the whole thing really hangs on how Gordon deals with all of these new people in his life that he is determined to get on the good side of, not to mention Sophie's ex-girlfriend, who is the one offering her the chance of the dream job.
Safe certainly for a date movie, but if anything it is a little too dull and by the numbers to illicit much of a feeling of anything aside from well-intentioned boredom.