Everyone has their guilty pleasures. Unfortunately for me, mine are the tasteless, cliché romantic comedies that Hollywood keeps churning out. Well that, and of course, Mean Girls. Imagine Me And You has just made it into my list of 'Guilty Pleasure Movies'.
In this movie, a newlywed bride (Piper Perabo) becomes infatuated with another woman (Lena Headey), who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the bride's family and friends. Then again the movie caption of "There goes the bride" and its poster is clearly misleading because one would assume that the bride runs off with someone else at the wedding itself. Nonetheless, no matter how cliché and boring the storyline is, it was a watchable movie.
There was very little deliberate, calculated development to the storyline at all. I felt that the movie focused too much on the bride's problematic relationship with her husband, rather than her risky affair with Luce. So, by the end of the movie when she runs off looking for the woman she loves (spoiler: they end up happy together. Who would've guessed?), I hadn't known that her infatuation had already turned into a full blown romance. The writing was pretty lacking in that aspect, but it was an interesting romantic comedy anyway. Well, the whole idea of a married woman falling in love with someone else at her wedding is a little exhausted, but I guess the writer thought 'I know how to twist things around! Let's make them lesbians!'
Alas, the soundtrack is predictable as well.
Honestly, I would give the movie a 5.5/10, simply because of the effort at trying to make this movie less uninteresting and more marketable. Also because this is a very 'shark week' movie, movies whereby women cry along to once a month with a pint of ice cream. As much as it pains me to say this, I think I'll be joining that group of women.
In this movie, a newlywed bride (Piper Perabo) becomes infatuated with another woman (Lena Headey), who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the bride's family and friends. Then again the movie caption of "There goes the bride" and its poster is clearly misleading because one would assume that the bride runs off with someone else at the wedding itself. Nonetheless, no matter how cliché and boring the storyline is, it was a watchable movie.
There was very little deliberate, calculated development to the storyline at all. I felt that the movie focused too much on the bride's problematic relationship with her husband, rather than her risky affair with Luce. So, by the end of the movie when she runs off looking for the woman she loves (spoiler: they end up happy together. Who would've guessed?), I hadn't known that her infatuation had already turned into a full blown romance. The writing was pretty lacking in that aspect, but it was an interesting romantic comedy anyway. Well, the whole idea of a married woman falling in love with someone else at her wedding is a little exhausted, but I guess the writer thought 'I know how to twist things around! Let's make them lesbians!'
Alas, the soundtrack is predictable as well.
Honestly, I would give the movie a 5.5/10, simply because of the effort at trying to make this movie less uninteresting and more marketable. Also because this is a very 'shark week' movie, movies whereby women cry along to once a month with a pint of ice cream. As much as it pains me to say this, I think I'll be joining that group of women.