So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post.
Trainwreck is charming and foul. It is most fresh when Amy Schumer is squinting suspiciously at the idea that there’s a payoff to being a Good Girl. It gets conventional again when she (inevitably) falls in love with top-tier husband material, the (improbable) Aaron, a celebrity sports surgeon.
After they (inevitably) break up and Amy is wised-up to the value of family, she is able to get Aaron back by performing a cheer routine for him with some pro cheerleaders. This is set up by a line of Aaron’s that Amy doesn’t like cheerleaders because they bring people together and make them happy, which is…I don’t know, not a proposition that I want to see Amy or this script taking at face value.
So it starts out all Amy Schumer and ends all Judd Apatow, and the middle section that should make this transition possible, where Amy and Aaron have things in common and enjoy their chemistry, is reduced to a (very) generic dating montage.
It’s sort of a letdown to get sixty more rapid fire jokes about sex and things that are gay while we tick through formula losses for Amy instead of actually going along for the ride with them, but it’s still funny. And it doesn’t end with a wedding.
Project recommendation: Consider