It is hard to know how to rate this one. On one hand it was completely predictable the way a Hollywood sitcom, or Hong Kong Comedy-romance, is, thus a 6 at best. In a way, it is a light, feel good movie that I enjoyed. It did the job it set out to do. It made me and everyone else I could hear around me laugh. It was pleasant. I am not sorry to have seen, don't regret the time spent on it thus an 8. But I wouldn't put it on a watch again list.
It's hard to put my finger on why I would give it as low as a 7. I can't say any actor was wooden nor was any scene choreographed poorly. I found the soundtrack rather overbearing and blaring over at times but that's a common enough aspect that is to someone's taste, just not mine. It didn't drag, didn't belabor, but didn't challenge. It wasn't violent, wasn't offensive, wasn't naughty, wasn't a tearjerker. It is sort of a formula pulp fiction (not the movie, actual pulp fiction). If you haven't seen Notting Hill, Me and You will seem fresher to you. Even though 2004's Saving Face was a romantic comedy of what would you do for love at first sight, is it real, the effect was totally different. But even from the trailer and posters of this one, I was set up for that.
But still it is a good movie. The writing was snappy, funny when it was supposed to be, oh-no! where it was supposed to be. No character was annoying, nor terribly developed either. The scenes were pretty, the actors acted well through connections and conflicts; the actors were all attractive, even if hard to tell apart as two lead ladies looked a lot alike.
They had it paced and set up so you cheer all the right people and all but it bore an uncanny resemblance to a Friends episode (except that here gay and interracial romances are assumed to be natural and as seamless as any other relationship not a punchline. That was nice to see.) There wasn't any silly nonsense of ew-old-folks-and-sex is gross and awkward like so many movies do. (That was a relief. )
I guess what dissatisfies me that not for a minute did I forget in You and Me that it was a movie or that I was in a theater. It didn't make me suspend disbelief. Even Crocodile Dundee was completely silly but I got involved in it in a way this didn't click.
It's a fun diversion.
It's hard to put my finger on why I would give it as low as a 7. I can't say any actor was wooden nor was any scene choreographed poorly. I found the soundtrack rather overbearing and blaring over at times but that's a common enough aspect that is to someone's taste, just not mine. It didn't drag, didn't belabor, but didn't challenge. It wasn't violent, wasn't offensive, wasn't naughty, wasn't a tearjerker. It is sort of a formula pulp fiction (not the movie, actual pulp fiction). If you haven't seen Notting Hill, Me and You will seem fresher to you. Even though 2004's Saving Face was a romantic comedy of what would you do for love at first sight, is it real, the effect was totally different. But even from the trailer and posters of this one, I was set up for that.
But still it is a good movie. The writing was snappy, funny when it was supposed to be, oh-no! where it was supposed to be. No character was annoying, nor terribly developed either. The scenes were pretty, the actors acted well through connections and conflicts; the actors were all attractive, even if hard to tell apart as two lead ladies looked a lot alike.
They had it paced and set up so you cheer all the right people and all but it bore an uncanny resemblance to a Friends episode (except that here gay and interracial romances are assumed to be natural and as seamless as any other relationship not a punchline. That was nice to see.) There wasn't any silly nonsense of ew-old-folks-and-sex is gross and awkward like so many movies do. (That was a relief. )
I guess what dissatisfies me that not for a minute did I forget in You and Me that it was a movie or that I was in a theater. It didn't make me suspend disbelief. Even Crocodile Dundee was completely silly but I got involved in it in a way this didn't click.
It's a fun diversion.