YMMV / Man of the Year

• Romantic Plot Tumor: Everything with Eleanor and Tom's fledgling relationship, which is eventually parlayed into a false scandal by the villains, especially as the movie's juggling so many other concepts as is.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The trailers seemed to indicate the film would be about what it would be like to have a comedian for President. Many felt that's what the film should have been about.
• Uncertain Audience: The film was marketed as a straight comedy and the premise itself seems to suggest it as such, but the movie itself is actually a much darker political drama that happens to have some comedy in it because the plot revolves around a comedian. The main heroine Eleanor is a lonely woman with mild mental health issues who by the end is near-fatally injured in an attempted murder orchestrated by her psychopathic bosses to cover up the computer glitch, events the Tom Dobbs character is unaware of and detached from; he instead spends most of the film worried and depressed that he is going to be elected President because he knows he isn't qualified yet feels pressured by everyone around him to make a go of it. The premise is already improbable to the point of ridiculousness, but the film spends less time on jokes and more on trying to make actual semi-serious points about the American political system and ultimately it isn't clear at all who this film is supposed to be aimed at.

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