One might expect a disappointment when a movie begins with a voice-over from a supposedly dead narrator and works on a rather contrived and overdone premise: that a man receives money to go out with a girl and ends up falling in love with her. One can imagine he or she is in for a twisted version of “She’s All That.”

However, “Deliver us From Eva” doesn’t offer an unsatisfactory movie experience, because it is uncommonly witty. The contrivedness of the plot doesn’t become a problem, because everything about the plot is overdone, cheesy and artificial and the film doesn’t pretend to delve any deeper. Everything is over the top – from the main characters (a hardcore player and an independent woman with a massive chip on her shoulder) to the plot to the opening Marvin Gaye dance sequence to the knight on a white stallion ending. It was phenomenal to watch everything that typically makes a bad movie bad, make this movie good.

LL Cool J has a bold and charismatic screen presence, but Gabrielle Union is the real star with her emotional outbursts and 360-degree mood swings.

The secondary characters and their relationships create a sort of “Sex in the City” atmosphere that is promiscuous, sexually explicit and meanwhile clever and hilarious. The dialogue is fast paced and witty… “A messed up man is a redundant sentence,” for example. Although this take on sex was certainly liberating, Eva’s happiness and life choices were dependent on a man and thus “good sex” served as a cure, making the premise a bit shallow and degrading for women.

“Deliver us From Eva” will make a good film to take your loved one to this Valentine’s Day. Surprise fellows; this film is not strictly appealing to ladies. This movie is about 60 percent geared toward women and 40 percent for the gents, with a lot of gray area to spare.