"I'm not like other girls," is the kind of sentence I used to say with my whole chest back in high school, aka my prime rom-com-hating days. So many of the ones I'd let my friends drag me to see in theaters were sugary, forgettable watches. But a few stood out from the bunch, genuinely funny enough that I still quote them to this day and revisit them as guilty pleasures from time to time.
Admittedly, I'm still not the biggest romantic comedy fan; even seeing the "good" ones hasn't made me a dyed-in-the-wool convert. These three, though, are ones I routinely recommend people watch for the quality of the comedy alone. All three never fail to crack me up, no matter how many times I've seen them. If I ever don't lose it at the way Kristen Wiig opens that curtain on the plane in "Bridesmaids," check my pulse. I honestly had to double-check and make sure there was romance in some of these, because what stands out now, over a decade after I've seen some of them, is the hilarious writing and leads.
