DON'T LET THE RATING FOOL YOU—I HAD SM FUN WATCHING THIS AND WAS ON THE VERGE OF RATING IT WAY HIGHER and yet i could not get over the horrible song choices (daddy's home and benson boone—who tf was in charge of the music) and tiktok cringe writing ("i don't need a man" in the middle of an emotionally charged conversation). there's something very booktok about this entire plot. this story would not work if the main characters were anything but white. and it's so white. the raciality of this is hard to look past. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M TRYING TO TALK ABOUT. the writing is bad in a lot of parts. the dialogue is fucking cringe, lifted straight out of gen z spaces in some parts. jill is the most y/n booktok heroine ever. even wes is the posterchild of booktok boyfriends, but this time i say it in a positive manner instead of being derogatory coz i LOVED how nick robinson plays him. that one scene where he's just quoting tswift back at his cousin is so funny. i love him. i haven't seen men do that in cinema without it feeling forced in a long time. there's something ann liang about him. but i also gotta talk about how underwritten he is, in true booktok boyfriend fashion. he SAYS he's broken but we don't exactly know how. yes, his mother is dead, and he seems to have attachment issues, but who is he beyond that. character is compromised in favour of creating a male lead whose main purpose is to yearn for the fmc. ik there's some layers to wes' character, but i think they're owed largely to how nick robinson plays him instead of how he was intentionally written. okay, moving on. zoey deutch. she embodies jill really well. there's also a lot of instances where she gives off y/n, or a colleen hoover protagonist. idk. she's just so quirky and so clumsy 😛 i would've hated her if i'd been reading this story as a book. but i was mostly fine w her in the film. she's so painfully straight it hurts. moving on again, NICK OFFERMAN. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA. DAWG BE PLAYIN ANYTHING. WDYM HE'S LARPING A FRENCH MAN. HES SO FUNNY. it's crazy how he can do roles like these after playing Bill in TLOU. i can never get that episode out of my head. it's so special to me. wtv. playing benson boone in the climactic scene with the male lead running to reach the love of his life was such a fumble. whoever chose the music for this movie NEEDS to be fired omg. wes calling izzy to ask for her permission tho 🫦🫦🫦 i wanted to scream so much. THAT MAKEOUT SCENE TOO. THE ONE AFTER JILL MAKES WES HIS MOTHER'S POT PIE RECIPE. oh lawd the emotions. the way he comes up behind her on the kitchen counter, overcome by feelings of what she's done for him, AND KISSES HER LIKE THAT FUCCKKKK. THE WAY THEY MAKE OUT THEIR HANDS EVERYWHERE HIS ON HER THIGH KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOD ME WHENNNNNNNNN (this is assuming i would even be into anything remotely sexual, which i have started heavily doubting as of late). i'll end the review here coz i can't think of much else to talk about. verdict: me like movie.
