Gigi Viogante

I was weary of this movie. It had thick gooey cheesiness written all over it… but what a pleasant surprise when five minutes went by, ten, fifteen minutes and I was sucked into the vortex of this heartwarming, well acted movie. What a refreshing change from so many of the mediocre, poorly acted, badly written scripts that Netflix, Amazon, all of the major platforms are producing these days. Most of the time we barely make it 15 minutes, my husband and I look at each other, racing for the remote to end the misery of another cheesy, overblown movie that’s like a bad SNL skit going on too long, or a shallow script that feels cheaply filled with over the top shoot em up bang bang, like being in a bad video game. This one carried us through to the end. Katie Holmes loosened up into the role and by the end of the movie was downright brilliant, and the male actor, I’m blanking on his name, he was in Sweet Home Alabama… he’s amazing! Why he isn’t in more movies is a mystery to me. Move over cheesy shtick Ryan Reynolds, 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮, your frat boy humor has nothing on this guy, he’s the real deal. Handsome, mature, and a very believable actor. We’ll done! Highly recommend this movie

I just don’t get Ryan Reynolds, he plays the same shtick in every single role. It’s as if I’m watching the same movie with him acting the same way… he’s just not that funny. His college frat boy humor is so over done, it’s like a cheap cloying wine that spoils the entire film for me. The young boy was a good actor but his shtick was over done too. I lost interest after 15 minutes, I usually love Jennifer Garner but even her acting felt forced. It all comes down to the writing, and this writing was trying too hard to be clever and never achieved it for me. Hollywood needs some competition. Another meh movie. The bar is so low these days that everyone thinks mediocre is good. Oh John Hughes, we miss you!! So glad I grew up with your funny, well written movies.