Arrested Development Revisited (The Condition, Not the TV Show)

Interesting.

I didn't plan to see the movie, and that plan hasn't changed - and I'm more interested now in asking the same question the reviewer does. Retro is for fashion and design influences, not gender attitudes and perceptions. I can think of a few favorite books where the heroine becomes the person she wants to be AND gets the guy, and doesn't do what she does in order to get the guy. I can think of a lot of movies where the girl gives up everything to get the guy - are there any out there that illustrate the point the reviewer is talking about? In Legally Blonde, the fact that Elle ends up dating Emmett is something of an afterthought - she doesn't sacrifice for him, or compromise her goals or change her vision of who she can be in order to be with him.

Illustrate, discuss - is there hope for Hollywood and the Happily Ever After?