Reasons to like Trainwreck

The Judd Apatow-Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck breaks no new ground on the rom-com front - another seemingly mismatched NY couple cute meet, fight and break up, yearn for each other from afar, and reunite at end to fireworks and Bollywood-style musical dance # - but that said it's charming in its way, upends a few of the genre stereotypes (Schumer is the aggressive partner, a sexual polymath, while the guys she's with are sensitive and focused on "relationships"), and is frequently hilarious, so what more can you ask of this kind of movie, right? In particular, some of the great scenes include the opening sequence in which Amy's dad explains to his preteen daughters why he's divorcing their mom (You like your doll, right? What if someone said you could never have another doll in your whole life, right?), Amy (that's her name in the movie as well) with asking her muscle-bound boyfriend to talk dirty to her (There's no I in Team ... ), and above all the stunt-casting scenes with Lebron James, who turns out to be an astonishingly good actor, who knew? Apatow-Schumer have a lot of fun casting him as the sensitive guy always trying to mend others' relationships (Amy's love interest is his knee surgeon, Aaron) and watching his spending: when he has to return to Aaron's office because he left his $30 sunglasses there, he asks Aaron to validate his parking receipt. A bewigged Tilda Swinton is also very funny as Amy's boss, a snooty sendup of a mag editor in the mode of Tina Brown. A few scenes were DOA - e.g., the panel of experts LeBron calls to together for relationship counseling - but overall the film has another laugh lines to keep you watching and shows that Schumer's writing talent as well as her deadpan comic delivery are for real.