Romantic comedy is the "boy-meets-girl" story, where we know who the romantic couple is, we just don't know how they will end up together. The romantic comedy usually has a happy ending, and emphasizes, apart from love, community, unity and continuation through marriage (or its modern equivalent, the permanent relationship).
Romantic comedy films are often very good, though sometimes they are considered of interest "only" to young women, or overtly romantic women of any age.
I say, any film which appeals "only" to women is a successful film, since women make up 51% of the world's population. Inasmuch as I would, one day, love my books to be read by men as well as women, I will be happy if they are read "only" by women!
Also, when someone speaks against romantic comedies, I tell them that they were invented by Shakespeare! Ha!
Of course, there are romantic comedies which are not that good. For example, those which present women desperate for a ring, for a proposal, for a guy, for anything. Or which emphasize the idea of marriage more than the idea of love. Or which insist that marriage solves everything.
An excellent romantic comedy was, for me, While you were sleeping with Sandra Bullock. Though Sandra Bullock was truly sad and alone at the start of the film, she wasn't desperate, nor spoke of marriage all the time. She went to her work, had friends and, most important of all, she had dignity.
Though marriage is the ultimate goal in While you were sleeping, it is presented as the natural ending to true love, not as a subject for hysteria.
Let's enjoy romance and the romantic comedy! It is one of the most honored literary genres ever invented!
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