Marry Me Review - This charismatic rooms could also be called JLo: The Movie

Marry Me Review - This charismatic rooms could also be called JLo: The Movie

Jennifer Lopez's latest attempt to revive a romantic comedy overshadows facts and fiction

Director: Kat Cairo. Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Malum, Sarah Silverman, Chloe Colman, John Bradley. 12A, 112 minutes.

Marry Me Review - This charismatic rooms could also be called JLo: The Movie

Jennifer Lopez was always unlocked. In fact, Lopez is an extremely diva, fabulously rich entertaining ecosystem for one woman. In the film, Lopez is the eternal working class: a wedding planner, a maid in Manhattan, a retailer waiting for a second act. Along with many of her pop anthems, "I'm Real," "Don't Don't Cost and Thing," she repeatedly used her work to distance herself from a personality she otherwise cultivated. Marry Me, her latest attempt to revive Romcom, literally makes this strange contradiction. She revolves around a pop music superstar trapped in a glass cage of fame and fortune, and a vulnerable, ordinary woman screaming for love. It could be called "JLo: The Movie."

In the film "Marry Me" by director Kata Coiro, Lopez plays Kata Valdez, who during the concert in Madison Square Garden agreed to marry her equally famous pop star friend Bastian (Maluma). Just seconds before she comes to the podium, TMZ tells her that she is cheating on her with her assistant. Destroyed, but dressed in an expensive wedding dress and standing in the spotlight, she does what any self-respecting dog would do: pull a casual spectator out of the crowd and approach him. Fortunately for her, math teacher Charlie (Owen Wilson) has gently divorced a nice baby and has no real interest in being famous. Faster than you would say in Notting Hill, they are starting to collapse.

It's the highest of the most popular concepts - even the genre they've always been in, and Marry Me will almost get over it. No, it's never clear why the sensible and serious Charlie wears such a crazy T-shirt, or at least what he has. But Wilson's neurotic charm, which is more like Woody Allen every year (sorry), outweighs the fantastic stupidity. He and Lopez have amazing chemistry, and the film plays their superficial incompatibility amazingly. "He's nice, isn't he?" At some point, Kat asks her assistant. At the cynical gaze of her assistant, Keta retreats: "Okay, she's fine."

Lopez is sensational, drawing patience - intentionally or not - from the similarities between him and her character. When Kate whines about Jimmy Philon (in an overly detailed portrait like him) joking on television that her "wedding is no stranger," your thoughts will surely turn into Lopez's dramatic love life. Later, when she notes with sadness that she has never been nominated for anything, it reminds us of Lopez's insane lack of attention at the 2019 Oscar in Hustler. Facts and fiction are blurred.

If only the film had some more dramatic stakes it could catch. The conflict now erupts with the reappearance of Bastian, a sub-story that relies too much on Malum, a charismatic pop star but in veneer acting, and whether Charlie's daughter can win a math tournament. It's all strangely lukewarm, but the huge rift between the infamous Kata and Charlie on the street remains unexplored outside of the lukewarm debate over Kata's use of social media.

Marry Me leaves some suggestions for the script out of the "next Sunday afternoon romance classic" area, as Lopez and Wilson try their best. However, in an age where many of Lopez's peers, Whiter spoon and Bullock, have turned to dark dramas, it's nice to see him in a drumming genre that has never earned the respect he deserves. Then he knows how it feels.

Marry Me Review -  The Movie

Kat Valdez (Lopez) is a half of the sexiest celebrity couple on Earth with a hot new music supernova Bastian ( Malta, a debut in a feature film). As Kayas and Bastian's an unreleased single Marry Me climbs to the top, their wedding awaits in a front of their fan audience at a ceremony that will be broadcast on several platforms.

Charlie Gilbert, a high school math teacher, was drawn to the concert by his daughter Lou ( Cloy Coleman, Big Little Lies from HBO) and his best friend (Sarah Silverman). When Kat finds out few seconds before the ceremony that Bastian cheated on her with her assistant, her life turns to left when she collapses on a stage, questioning love, a truth and loyalty. When her crazy world disappears, she closes her eyes with a stranger - a face in the crowd.

If what you know is deceiving you, you probably don't know the answer, so Beta, inspired by insanity, decides to marry Charlie. But when the forces join forces to separate them, a universal question arises: can two people from so many different worlds bridge the gap between them and create a place where they both belong?