I was on the fence on whether to give this movie a 5 or 6, but I'm in a good mood today so here we go.
I'm usually pretty cringed out by these modern netflix original rom-coms, but based off the trailer this one actually seemed like it was going to be more interesting and not as bad. I'm also a sucker for time travel movies so I had to see this one to see how they did it.
I was afraid this movie was going to be hard to watch since adam devine always plays obnoxious, unlikable characters, but in here his humor is a little reeled back and played as more charming and dorky than loud, and he's actually pretty tolerable, even likable at times. You do want to root for him so that's good.
Someone described this movie as Groundhog Day meets 500 Days of Summer, and I completely agree. I'm glad the time travel dynamic isn't heavily explained with a magician or some culturally insensitive evil old woman. Instead it quietly tells the viewer what happened and how it works. And a photo booth is actually a really cool idea for a time machine.
What I really like is how the movie actually flips a convention on its head by making the main character accept that he can't get the girl, and that manipulating time won't actually change her feelings for the other dude. There's one point where noah makes one expression right as he figures this out, and it's kind of a cool scene. You understand his frustration and sadness, and also like him more because you know he's going to do the right thing and be a morally cool dude.
But on the flipside, the other girl that they try to set up with him as the "real" love interest is kind of annoying and she feels forced. I didn't really pick up on any connection between them at the beginning so it feels like a hodge-podge pairing. She's not really all that likable and i think the movie would be much better if either 1) they developed their relationship much more and gave them more chemistry, or 2) just removed her from the equation and have noah end up a single dude at the end, still happy that he's learned something and is ready to move forward. Idk.
The other problem with the movie is just the obvious: it has that slapstick, pop-culture reference kind of humor that's just too cringey and embarrassing for me to take the movie 100% seriously. Instead of a good rom-com with a cringe flavor, it's a cringe rom-com with a good flavor. It's on the much better end of these weird movies, but it still has enough modern cringe vibes to prevent me from liking it much more.
Other than that, there were actually a few pretty good jokes (angus young hopping away angrily made me genuinely laugh out loud) and the rest aren't so bad as to be insufferable or painful at all. I expected a cringey, un-romantic millennial movie and was pleasantly relieved that it was a little better than that. It's worth a watch.
I'm usually pretty cringed out by these modern netflix original rom-coms, but based off the trailer this one actually seemed like it was going to be more interesting and not as bad. I'm also a sucker for time travel movies so I had to see this one to see how they did it.
I was afraid this movie was going to be hard to watch since adam devine always plays obnoxious, unlikable characters, but in here his humor is a little reeled back and played as more charming and dorky than loud, and he's actually pretty tolerable, even likable at times. You do want to root for him so that's good.
Someone described this movie as Groundhog Day meets 500 Days of Summer, and I completely agree. I'm glad the time travel dynamic isn't heavily explained with a magician or some culturally insensitive evil old woman. Instead it quietly tells the viewer what happened and how it works. And a photo booth is actually a really cool idea for a time machine.
What I really like is how the movie actually flips a convention on its head by making the main character accept that he can't get the girl, and that manipulating time won't actually change her feelings for the other dude. There's one point where noah makes one expression right as he figures this out, and it's kind of a cool scene. You understand his frustration and sadness, and also like him more because you know he's going to do the right thing and be a morally cool dude.
But on the flipside, the other girl that they try to set up with him as the "real" love interest is kind of annoying and she feels forced. I didn't really pick up on any connection between them at the beginning so it feels like a hodge-podge pairing. She's not really all that likable and i think the movie would be much better if either 1) they developed their relationship much more and gave them more chemistry, or 2) just removed her from the equation and have noah end up a single dude at the end, still happy that he's learned something and is ready to move forward. Idk.
The other problem with the movie is just the obvious: it has that slapstick, pop-culture reference kind of humor that's just too cringey and embarrassing for me to take the movie 100% seriously. Instead of a good rom-com with a cringe flavor, it's a cringe rom-com with a good flavor. It's on the much better end of these weird movies, but it still has enough modern cringe vibes to prevent me from liking it much more.
Other than that, there were actually a few pretty good jokes (angus young hopping away angrily made me genuinely laugh out loud) and the rest aren't so bad as to be insufferable or painful at all. I expected a cringey, un-romantic millennial movie and was pleasantly relieved that it was a little better than that. It's worth a watch.