The Giant Mechanical Man (2012)

I’m still craving for a decent romantic comedy to watch, because this wasn’t it. Chris Messina is a silver-painted, street performer whose girlfriend has recently broken up with him. Jenna Fischer is a temp worker who gets fired from that gig for not being personable enough. They have a couple of random meet-ups before they both take jobs at the zoo and strike up a friendship. Half of the movie these two come across as so deeply unhappy they don’t even realize they’re depressed, then suddenly Messina falls into a character he’s played dozens of times before and is dating Pam Beesly. She manages to fall into a job that there’s no reason to believe she’s seriously underqualified for. Or maybe she is, because there’s almost no background to either of these characters except that they don’t want the life that her sister and brother-in-law want to push her into. There’s also Topher Grace with awful long hair being an awful egocentric writer who Fischer is forced to date, his only reason for existing seeming to be that you can do worse than dating a street performer Chris Messina.