Genevieve
really contrived ideas about romantic relationship are challenged.
Another
day, another rom com.
This is the
latest effort from Nia Vardalos who became an overnight sensation with “My big
fat Greek weeding”, which she wrote and starred in, but then was never able to
get back her mojo. All her subsequent efforts, including this one, bombed at
the box office (Don’t cry for her, with the royalties from “My big fat Greek
weeding” she’ll never be poor).
The premise
is bizarre and convoluted and basically drags down the first thirty minutes of
the movie, honestly only extreme tiredness stopped me from getting another
movie considering that I didn’t even crack a smile in the first half hour, but
then the movie switched gears and suddenly started being funny. This is still
not a comic masterpiece but managed to entertain us in the end.
It is worth
noticing that the movie started working when it moved to the classic rom com
plot, even openly acknowledging it at time. It’s difficult to move in uncharted
territory, I think that there are occasions when it’s better for writer to
stick to more familiar territory.
The two protagonists
are slightly miscast. They do their jobs but really this is a role for younger
people. On the other side I understand that they wanted to do the “The two
leads from My big fat Greek weeding are back together for the first time”,
maybe with a better ad campaign about that they could have had a decent box
office.
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