A artificial fairytale for the period of livestreaming and monetised oversharing, Marry Me is a musical romcom that pairs a celebrity superstar, pop queen Kat Valdez (Jennifer Lopez), with Charlie (Owen Wilson), a divorced maths trainer in a shapeless cardigan. They're flung collectively after Kat, about to marry her boyfriend in entrance of 20 million viewers, discovers that he has cheated on her and plucks Charlie from the viewers as an alternative, forcibly marrying him in entrance of his traumatised 12-year-old daughter and the entire of Instagram.
There’s one thing of the Notting Hill dynamic on this underpowered romance, wherein the megastar, touched by the everyman attraction of her dad-joke spouting maths nerd, vacates her ivory tower to search out love in the actual world. It’s fascinating to notice that whereas the good-looking prince in equal fairytales will get to retain his crown, the princess tends to be hauled right down to earth. Or maybe that’s studying an excessive amount of into this foolish, shallow romcom, which is as skinny and predictable as Kat’s tinny pop songs.
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