Elements Bits: Just Go With It

Cast:

Adam Sandler - Danny Maccabee
Jennifer Aniston - Katherine
Brooklyn Decker - Palmer

Adam's character, Danny, bails on his wedding day because he overheard his fiancee discuss with the bridesmaids a couple of disturbing facts about the real reason for marrying him. He ends up in a bar and hot a chick sits beside him and drops her purse, so Danny tells the girl that you dropped your purse, but the girl lashes out to Danny thinking that he was trying to do some pick up lines. And the girl notices that she indeed dropped her purse and saw the wedding ring on Danny's hand. So the girl asks about the wedding ring but Danny didn't want to sound like a loser bailing out on his wedding day, so he concocts a sad story about how he does so many things for his (imaginary) wife and is not appreciated. The girl then feels sorry and viola!! Danny ends up bringing home the hot chick!

This now gave him an idea on how powerful this One Ring is.

Present day; Danny is a successful plastic surgeon who has Jennifer Aniston as his secretary, Katherine, who is divorced and has two kids. So Danny continues with the charade of picking up girls and women, using different sad stories about his make-believe marriage, but one night he hooks up with Brooklyn Decker without using any of the One Ring stories. They end up making out and the next morning they talk about how this could be a good thing, so when Brook D asks how she can contact Danny, he said that he has one of his calling cards in his pants pocket. But instead of the card, Palmer (Brook D's character) pulls out the wedding ring. So Palmer feels disgusted and tells Danny never to see her again.

But Danny tries to reconcile things with Palmer, but instead of telling the truth that he uses the One Ring to pick up girls, he lies even more and tells Palmer that he is indeed married but is in the final stages of a divorce because he caught his wife cheating on him with another man and is hooked on some kind of purple colored pills. This pacifies Palmer and Danny thinks he is in the clear, but to his surprise, she asks Danny that she wants to meet the so-called ex-wife. So Danny ask Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) to pose as his lustful and drug-crazed divorcing wife.

And this is where the chaos starts. Sooner and later, the lies kept piling up and they all ended up taking a vacation in Hawaii, along with the 2 kids of Jennifer Aniston, who by now is the make-believe children of Danny and Katherine.

And it's a bowlful of laughter from then on. Danny trying to claw himself out from the grave he dug with all these lies. So, will Danny just go with it and try to maintain the deceptions or will he let the stack of bricks come crumbling down with the truth.

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Elements Bits number 1:
Divorce. Is it really that easy? Like a reset button that you can press anytime when things are so messed up beyond repair, so let's punch it in and start fresh. (I will not go into the legalities of this matter.) Of course, there are indeed a couple of serious grounds for it to be consummated just like in the movie when the alleged ex-wife committed adultery. But can irreconcilable difference really hold water? Hmm.

Elements Bits number 2:
Using an unsuccessful marriage or relationship as a scapegoat. Really?
Both men and women may tend to do so, trying to be the chivalrous knight but always unappreciated or the damsel in distress. Maybe trying to win the hearts of others by ranting how the worse half has destroyed their lives and why they can't move on. (But not really to pick up men or women in a bar? Does that even really work towards the opposite sex who are single? Sympathy? Pity maybe?)

Elements Bits number 3:
White Lies. Telling the truth will not set you free, but telling the lie will not hurt the other party either. It's like adding gasoline on a campfire when your intentions is to really put it out but you really can't, so you just have to be tactful and contain it. Harmless, painless, if you manage to pull it off, yet still a lie. So here's a situation, would you lie about something if it meant saving a life? If you tell the truth that person dies. What say you?

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Memorable Quotes in the movie:

Danny: "I love your smile. That smile is the magic. It starts my day...that smile."
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Katherine: "Are you there? Do you understand?"
Danny: " I guess."
Katherine: "It's an awful lot of guessing coming through this phone. I've been divorced, I have two kids, I don't have time for guessing."
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Maggie: "The first rule of improv is always accept the information. If someone says something, just go with it. No negating."

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Babe Battle:

   Jennifer Aniston           or       Brooklyn Decker