Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A habitual bridesmaid, played by Katherine Heigl finally gets her own love story.
In many ways this is an incredibly generic rom-com, all of the toxic and cliched elements are all present and everything happens the way you would expect it to. The surprises are kept to a minimum.
However, despite all of that there is a charm to this film, it is all of the bad things that I labelled it above, but there is also a warmth to it, the idea of junk food springs to mind in that sometimes we consume what we know is bad for us just because we want to satiate a craving, this is very much that we know it is toxic and problematic yet it is also a good rom-com.
Moreover, despite her reputation for being difficult this film made me miss the slightly awkward charm of Heigl especially as she has been absent from our screens for quite a long time now. I thought she had great chemistry with her leading man James Marsden and I believed the two of them as a couple. Really it is hard for Marsden to be bad in anything and that helped this film a lot.
Overall, though it is predictable, clichéd and toxic there is also something warm and familiar to enjoy.
Pros.
It feels like quality junk food
There is a warmth to it that is infectious
Heigl and Marsden both put in good turns
Cons.
It is cliched, toxic and predictable
It is badly paced.
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