Let's face it, romcoms are predictable, cliché and unbelievable. We eat em up anyway, the sappier the better. But there's gotta be a voice in all of us that says this entire genre needs to be roasted. Lazy Susan delivers just that, although it's not an outright parody like those "Not Another..." movies. Even better, it's so deadpan that you might not realize how this movie makes fun of all the tropes.

The casting oughta tell us that the movie isn't playing on the level. Our leading "lady" is played by Sean Hayes in drag, but he doesn't go full Tootsie/Doubtfire silly, he plays Susan totally straight faced and believable which is what makes it so funny. Susan is one of the most self-absorbed characters of any romcom which, to me, highlights the idea that all typical romantic leads are pretty selfish, believing they're entitled to love and making spectacles of themselves when they don't get it. Here Susan doesn't hide what a lousy human she is, mooching off everyone and putting zero effort into any relationship the way she sits on the gym cycle sipping a McFlurry. As for making a spectacle of herself, we get an epic dose of that.

I noticed most of the critics at Rottentomatoes hated this movie for that reason "unlikeable character". Duh! That's the point of a movie that's making fun of the genre. Lazy Susan is like a Hollywood romcom but with all the characters' worst traits put on parade, instead of being set in some trendy metropolis being set in small town Wisconsin where the local hotspot is Kmart, and instead of some cute Zooey Deschanel pixie playing the lead it's Sean Hayes. The storyline is deliberately vapid. But if you catch the irony in all this, it's downright hilarious from start to finish.