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The publicity guy who decided to call this movie "Mr. Predictable" in English was leading with his chin. It's a movie about encountering that stock character called the Manic Pixie Dream Girl-- the one who is always eager for adventure and takes you out of your shell and shows you what fun is. "Live for today" is normally the lesson of such movies, and if you've seen one (like "Something Wild" with Melanie Griffith or "Who's That Girl" with Madonna) you'll find a good dose of predictability in the others. But in this instance, in comparison with some, the scriptwriter has kept his feet, if not on the ground, maybe at least little closer to it. The protagonist has a son, he'd like to teach that son how to be gentlemanly but not a chump, and he's not sure himself where the balance lies. The son, and the protagonist's parents for that matter, are flawed in ways that aren't intended to be completely funny. The movie winds up in a middle ground that certainly isn't entirely comic but does prioritize comedy much of the time and sort of clings to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stereotype as an reliable formula.