Steve Harvey is over-the-top cringe, I really really think someone else should have played his dad. He tries, and sometimes it is fun, but it is wildly inconsistent. I actually think it would have been a better movie if Kenan Thompson was the lead, or hell, Kal Penn, and Cannon was one of the sidekicks, he just cannot handle this role at all. They just never build a really strong connection, and I'm not entirely sure why Milian would be interested in him for real. It would also help if Cannon and Milian had more onscreen time together, as it is a bit limited.
Christina Milian does a good job, and you cannot fault her. This actually could have been a pretty fun movie with a different leading man.
I decided to finally watch it, and while the reviews were way too harsh, this is not a great romantic comedy, and it falls flat largely because of Nick Cannons over-the-top and somehow, still wooden at the same time performance. This is one of those movies that came out while I was still delivering papers, and I didn't see it because I read horrible reviews for it in the paper. Prior to watching this, I had not seen 'Can't Buy Me Love'.
