Fridae

Can Matthew McConaughey go through one movie without taking his shirt off? Because frankly, we're getting sick of him play this same role over and over again - a "sexy" womaniser who, after hundreds of flings, comes to realise that love is the only thing worth living for.

In this variation of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, Matthew plays a successful photographer who beds hundreds of models, flight attendants and other attractive women - until the ghost of his uncle (Michael Douglas) appears one night and takes him through his past, his present and his future. It is only after Matthew witnesses his grim and lonely future does he realise that life without love is meaningless...

Ghost of Girlfriends Past is crude, predictable and unfunny, with Matthew delivering a typically smug, swaggering performance. The worst thing about it is its depiction of women as shameless, sex-starved and stupid, as they fall helplessly in love with Matthew the rake. Real-life women would certainly know better.

Sigh... if only we had a Ghost of Films Futureto warn us of how bad this movie was going to be.