In “Transformers” Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) found himself caught in the middle of a war between two extraterrestrial rivals: the Autobots and the Decepticons. Two years later, and the college-bound teen is getting an emotional send-off from his parents (Kevin Dunn and Julie White) and having to say good-bye to his grease monkey main squeeze [...]

As with any film genre, romantic comedies follow a formula. The most common one is as follows: You have a badly suited couple – one of them is either obnoxious, childish, selfish or self-important – that gets thrown into an “outrageous” situation. This situation reveals that the obnoxious person isn’t really the jerk the protagonist [...]