The Right Kind of Wrong

(2013)

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The Right Kind Of Wrong is a Canadian romantic comedy where Leo (Ryan Kwanten) is a wannabe writer who's wife leaves him but gives him the parting gift of a blog that documents his uselessness in graphic detail. Locally, he becomes a joke because of it, but in the pits of despair he spies Colette (Sara Canning) who just happens to be getting married to local hotshot Danny (Ryan McPartlin) at that moment. Not perturbed by this, Leo decides he must have Colette, gate-crashing her wedding and hitting on her to no avail. But, Leo finds a new lease on life and continues to pursue Colette. She resists, for a while, but slowly she starts to see his worth.

A dicey premise for a romantic comedy and it struggles bravely trying everything to justify the premise, but fails mainly because the lead character is so undeserving of some 'luck' in his life. And that's despite obvious clichés working in his favour such as the woman marrying the wrong guy because he's a bully who's tangled with the hero before and numerous signs of luck that he uses as a guide that he's on the right track. The hero is made out to be such an obvious lovable loser though, but why is he so deserving of the 'perfect' girl when he does nothing to warrant it except 'getting back on the bike'. An attempt at something different in a genre mired by repeating the same over and over again is at least a positive, it's just a shame it isn't much good.

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