40 y/o soccer mom goes to a festival, meets, pulls, and falls in love with a member of a top boy band. Sounds implausible, but "Implausible" is by no means a bad thing.
I should blame Amazon, as it was they who advertised this as a comedy-drama, but it's in reality (in part at least) a fairly standard and deja vu chick flick. There's a dearth of laugh out loud moments, and when an overdue story arc does hit a turning point, it makes sense, but there is a slight lack of oomph.
I've long thought of Anne Hathaway as being short of a top drawer actress, but sadly it looks as though this is her level these days. At times, her efforts to convey some emotion look a little constipated.
Overall, although I've given it as many marks as I honestly can, and they're not outstanding, this film is still a keeper. If it can hold my attention for the better part of 2 hours, it can do the same for you, but it suffers from being a film of two halves. Goofy at first, deeper and more meaningful later on, and ending a little anticlimactically.
And therein lines the issue. It doesn't matter what side this film picked, whether a goofy chick flick, or a Sunday afternoon Hallmark offering, or a serious critique of celebrity culture and online harassment, as long as it picked one. If it had planted its flag somewhere definite in the sand, it'd have potentially got a lot more marks.
I should blame Amazon, as it was they who advertised this as a comedy-drama, but it's in reality (in part at least) a fairly standard and deja vu chick flick. There's a dearth of laugh out loud moments, and when an overdue story arc does hit a turning point, it makes sense, but there is a slight lack of oomph.
I've long thought of Anne Hathaway as being short of a top drawer actress, but sadly it looks as though this is her level these days. At times, her efforts to convey some emotion look a little constipated.
Overall, although I've given it as many marks as I honestly can, and they're not outstanding, this film is still a keeper. If it can hold my attention for the better part of 2 hours, it can do the same for you, but it suffers from being a film of two halves. Goofy at first, deeper and more meaningful later on, and ending a little anticlimactically.
And therein lines the issue. It doesn't matter what side this film picked, whether a goofy chick flick, or a Sunday afternoon Hallmark offering, or a serious critique of celebrity culture and online harassment, as long as it picked one. If it had planted its flag somewhere definite in the sand, it'd have potentially got a lot more marks.