@@kelsey2333Yeah, the casting was stacked ! Neil Patrick Harris, MK Olsen, Vanessa Hudgens, and the most surprising to me Dakota Johnson (she plays the ex-girlfriend) !
The message it's sending to the audience is that a real happy ending requires he become beautiful again. And be rich. Had he stayed ugly, and been poor, that would be saying that love depended on what is in the inside.
In male targeted films you rarely if ever see female romantic interest as rich. In girl targetted films the romantic male interest is often wealthy. Do that many woman really fantasize marrying a rich man as part of some ideal or is it just some film trope?