This is not, I think, a good movie. Yes, it has Cary Grant and all that old-timey charm stuff, but:

  1. Its pacing can be described as “leisurely” only if you’re being generous. Terrence Malick makes movies that are more stultifyingly boring, but at least you believe he’s doing it on purpose.

  2. The fundamental relationship of the movie is total Hollywood. “We had a good time on a cruise ship, so you want to get back together in six months and get married?” A sound basis for a marriage, indeed! Especially when one of the participants in the proposed marriage is a known philanderer, leaving a trail of women behind who were seduced with empty promises (and who was, indeed, ENGAGED at the time of the cruise ship fun). No way could this relationship fail!

  3. Characters behave in idiotic ways for plot purposes. It seems to me that if you’re making a movie that is, in its entirety, about two people, those two people should behave in ways recognizable to human beings.

  4. There are no fewer than four random musical digressions, only one of which conceivably adds something to the movie. The two with the singing schoolchildren were egregiously bad. The one with the singing schoolchildren where the two token black children engaged in some form of pre-modern breakdancing was eye-gougingly embarrassingly horrifying.

Do not rent.