Marry Me (2022)

Marry Me (2022)

3/10

Starring

Jennifer Lopez

Owen Wilson

 

Directed by Kat Coiro

 

You know that icky, annoying feeling that makes you want to puke? Well, when such scenes and moments come up, you just use the skip button and thank God you're not watching this in the theatre. This movie has it in loads.

The key plot is: my heart got broken on my wedding day because my man is cheating. Wow, I guess that’s 10/10 for originality. This happens stupidly in the most cringey way, in front of over 20 million people (either watching on a screen or in attendance). I give the worst speech ever and decide to marry the first guy my eyes come across… who wrote this crap?

This feels like one of those things you see on South American soap operas that make you glad you have no idea what led to this, and you’re not interested in knowing how it’s going to end.

My case is different—trapped in another state and having this for what’s supposed to be entertainment, it made me wish for something better for my life.

Skipping all the nonsense, the movie proceeds to jump into a Notting Hill-kind of put together. This time, there’s no secret about the big star (Kat, played by Jennifer Lopez) and the Mr. Nobody being together. You must remember Mr. Nobody (Charlie, played by Owen Wilson). You see, neither of them considered for a second the impact of the on-stage million-viewers marriage they did, so when the whole thing blows up, the movie turns the two leads into idiots.

How did they think that this wasn’t going to blow up and have its own repercussions? It’s one of those things that made me wonder if this movie had a director at all. If the writers skipped some of these idiotic ideas they let spew out of their pens, at least the director would notice it and do something, but nope, the nonsense continues.

Then, instead of cleaning up the mess, Kat decides to move on with the marriage by filing the marriage papers and convincing Charlie to go along with it, in the most unconvincing way ever. At this point, I’m now the idiot who chose to continue watching instead of switching this thing off. Curiosity got the best of me; I wanted to see how it would play out. I had hoped the movie would save itself with this turning of events. Well, it got mushier for some parts, and in the end, this is one movie I will not be telling anyone to take their time out to go see.