Don't worry, there's a long list of movies that I have to get through, but to appease the review gods, I'm tackling the romcom of the year, The Proposal.

The Proposal adapts the age-old American routine of marrying an immigrant to prevent them from being deported, while making the family believe it. Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) and his boss Margaret (Sandra Bullock) make a deal to defraud immigration law to keep her in the country. To add some variety, while Margaret is a rich New York executive who has never needed anyone, Andrew is a rural Alaskan blue-blood with "you can never go home again" issues. He knows everything about her, but she doesn't care to know anything about him. Imagine Captain Kathryn Janeway (ST:VOY) forcing Neelix to marry her so she can stay in Starfleet, but then he turns in to Tom Paris.

Most of these comedies play on the idea that the two don't actually love each other and eventually fall in love and this is no exception. Sprinkled throughout are encounters with Andrews ex-girlfriend to hint that he will actually have someone to go back to after the affair, but we all know how these end.

Aside from the painful "love dialogue", the awkwardness factor gears up when everyone's favorite gay accountant Oscar Nuñez makes a creepy John Turturro-ish appearance as the caterer/stripper/clergy. He certainly leaves room for Betty White to steal the real comic relief factor as the crazy grandma. Other than that, the other characters all but don't exist until the wedding.

This is one of the most perposterous romcoms of the year and includes its own moment of clarity that explains that Andrew really loves Margaret and didn't have the chance to tell her before she left. It's ingenious really, to explain something as it's happening. And they do it all with only a minimal amount of Apple plugging.

Oh yea, watch the credits. "Is this a game show?"