Review of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) by Paul W — 25 Jan 2013

A sweet romance with Steve Carrell playing it straight, and a very down-to-earth Keira Knightley. I don't know that an end-of-the-world scenario was really necessary to bring out the romance between these two: surely some lesser calamity resulting in an unlikely man/woman pairing could have been devised.

The sic-fi touch will probably draw more men, though, and maybe that's why they did it ... there have been a lot of end-times movies lately, so maybe they were just trying to cash in on a fad. But as a romance, this really is a sweet one, and we enjoyed watching it.