February 14 is approaching, and the platforms released romantic comedies with Valentine's Day in their sights.
Something, it shows, clouded their vision, because both
Lead Weddings
, with Jennifer Lopez on Amazon Prime Video, and
Your House or Mine
, with
Reese Witherspoon
and
Ashton Kutcher
, which is already the most watched on
Netflix
and premiered this Friday They are insufferable.
The nothing itself.
We talked about a week ago about Jennifer's, which ends up being an action comedy with some deaths from the pirates who harass the wedding guests of the title, a little strong.
Your house or mine
, with which Netflix papered the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs, has these two stars whose names and surnames are difficult to write, but perhaps because they don't come together in the same place, the chemistry fails, it is nonexistent.
The characters of Reese and Ashton, the stars with difficult names, are hardly ever in the same place.
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Because the premise is that one is in the West and the other is in the East of the United States.
It's not like in
A Love Song
, with Tom Hanks in Seattle meeting Meg Ryan at the Empire State Building in New York at the end.
Let's see.
Wesley Kimmel, Jimmy's nephew in real life, plays Debbie's (Reese Witherspoon) son Jack.
Peter and Debbie, twenty years ago, spend a night together, but he wants nothing to do, it seems, with getting engaged.
They lived in Los Angeles, and he decides to move to New York, "for fear of earthquakes."
They have continued as close friends, they tell each other their things, but at a distance, through phone calls, messages and Zoom.
close friends after bed
In the present Debbie, who is a single mother, must travel to New York for a week, to take a course that she has been putting off, and when the friend who was going to take care of her son fails her, it is Peter who decides to travel to Los Angeles to take care of little Jack (Wesley Kimmel, nephew of Jimmy Kimmel, the one from the talk shows).
And she will go to live in Peter's majestic half-floor apartment with a view of the bridges, that she is doing so well, that she can take a little week off.
Tig Notaro with Ashton Kutcher: wasted talent.
Your house or mine
is a waste of everything.
Of the interpreters -Reese also produced the film- and of the time allocated to viewing the film.
If we check the papers, this would not have to have turned out that way, if the writer and director is Aline Brosh McKenna, screenwriter of
The Devil Wears Fashion
and
27 Weddings
, and director of the
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
series .
Two actresses in this series, Rachel Bloom and Vella Lovell, have practically cameo appearances.
How well they did by not accepting greater responsibilities.
Debbie together with Minka, an ex of Peter, played by Zoë Chao, perhaps the only salvageable thing in the film.
And since it is already a classic formula, since
When Harry Met Sally
, or even before, the roles of the characters that accompany the protagonists are covered by good actors, comedians in general, who in this case cannot go against a predictable script either. .
They are, on Peter's side, Zoë Chao (the HBO Max series
Love Life
), as Minka, an ex-partner of his, who becomes an ally of Debbie;
and Debbie's, Tig Notaro (
Army of Thieves
) and Seve Zahn.
The actor who at 55 looks 30, who worked in Werner Herzog's
Rescue at Dawn
, and
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
, here is Debbie's neighbor who spends all his time fixing or mowing her garden.
He doesn't seem to have a job.
Well, Minka neither.
It doesn't matter.
Steve Zahn is Debbie's neighbor.
Another one that wastes her humor.
Or it wouldn't matter if their characters had some justification of their own, or some funny line of dialogue, some physical gag.
Something.
Better, dive into platforms to see if the two aforementioned romantic comedies are there.
No, not
Lead Weddings
or
Your House or Mine
, but
Love Tune
and
When Harry Met Sally
.
That is cinema.
"Your house or mine"
Bad
Romantic comedy.
USA, 2023.
Original title:
“Your Place or Mine”
.
109', SAM 13.
From:
Aline Brosh McKenna.
Starring:
Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher, Steve Zahn, Zoë Chao, Jesse Williams.
Available on:
Netflix.
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