Main problem here: the film moves too fast, doesn't give time for characters to develop. like none of them. anniston and sandler have a small conflict betwen them (he's lying about being a detective, shown in the first 30 seconds of the film) but apart from that everything seems ok. there's chemistry between them but not a notion they're effectively a couple. then the rest of the characters are just pawns with no structure - which is the main problem here.

actually the best part of the film, and i don't know if it was voluntarly maybe not, is to check how sometimes american tourists seem so offputting when they're travelling abroad. i've worked in the tourism field: a lot of times they do look as if they're just watching a movie instead of realizing they're participants too. how they describe their travels is a lot about themselves and what they've seen and not about how other people engage with each other neither about their own feelings towards the trip. in this case i think the film nails it: pus it has a metalanguage towards romance novels, about their rules and how they progress.

but this is all very superficial. that's the main problem: things are made in a very quickly sense and that destroys what actually could have been an engaging movie. it's not as bad as most recent sandler's comedies (didn't see many, but one or two honestly) but besides that metalanguage and the fact that it can spoof a bit americans abroad there aren't many redeeming things to this. anniston and sandler work well together but their material is nothing special.