Up until we meet Cyrus, this is a pretty good movie. It begins as the tale of a terribly depressed man named John who still hasn't gotten over his divorce from his wife seven years prior. She's getting remarried and invites him to the engagement party where (she hopes) he can meet a new woman. As luck would have it, he meets a quirky, awesome woman named Molly and even after embarrassing himself completely, manages to take her home.
Things aren't as they seem, and she leaves before he wakes up, leaving a note with her number on it. He calls, and she again comes over to his place, and again tries to leave in the early hours of the morning. "Are you married?" John asks. Negatory. "Are you a secret agent?" Also no. So what could it be? Rather than wait until the relationship develops, John decides to be proactive (and creepy) and follow Molly home. There, he falls asleep in his car and in the morning, investigates the house. Cyrus, Molly's son, comes out to say hello and invites John inside.
From here, the movie falls apart. There are things that I as a viewer need to know about these characters before I can believe the world that I'm thrust into as soon as Cyrus enters the picture. Cyrus and Molly have an extremely creepy relationship. Cyrus walks in on his mother taking a shower and this isn't thought of as weird. They wrestle together in the park. They have no other friends apart from each other. It's odd, and it's more odd that Molly would simply accept that John is inside her house suddenly when she never invited him over or told him where she lived. Instead, she simply invites him to stay for dinner, where he is questioned by Cyrus. Cyrus seems to like him, and Molly definitely likes him.
Again, things aren't as they seem, and it turns out Cyrus is a manipulative creep who is trying to keep anyone and everyone away from his mother. This I believe. Molly's interest in John I do not. She seems to like that he's very open and honest, but sometimes his honesty makes her nervous, like when he tells Cyrus that he's had sex with Molly. Which doesn't seem like something that would upset her, especially since she lets Cyrus into the bathroom while she's showering. The characterizations don't make sense, and the logic of the movie is completely unbelievable.
Later, the movie gets absurd when John and Cyrus declare war on each other for Molly's affection. It seems to me that someone would have sat down and decided it was time to have a TALK about all of this before things got out of hand. But rather than talk about anything that matters, about anyone's feelings, things just get goofy for the sake of the movie. Every conversation that needs to happen is either breezed over in odd "indie" montages or completely skipped. Thus, the characters become two-dimensional and I'm no longer interested in what happens.
Still, if you aren't looking for a movie to be completely believable, there's a few good laughs and the story is at the very least interesting. If you're looking for a great work of art of a great comedy, this isn't what you're looking for.
5/10