Merry Matrimony | Blogmas Day 11

 

It's Blogmas day 11!

I chose this film mainly because the plot was slightly different than the movies that I've been watching so far, because the main couple start the movie as exes, rather than love interests.

When Brie (Jessica Lowndes) is assigned her dream project at work, she is thrilled. Until she discovers that she has to work with her ex-boyfriend (Christopher Russell).

So, while they start off as exes, this isn't a particularly original setting because after a while you forget that they were even exes in the first place.

The characters have an interesting dynamic, particularly in the beginning of the time jump, when they meet each other again. You want to see where this is going to go.

Speaking of the time jump,  it was too long (7 years) for me to really believe it. These characters look and act exactly the same, and they definitely don't behave as if they haven't seen each other in close to a decade.

The characters were really bland, and the story itself didn't inject any life into them, because it too was a bit uninteresting. In addition to that, there wasn't a lot of chemistry between them, and they didn't seem to be a particularly believable couple.

This might have been better if their romantic relationship had been developed before the time jump, but as it wasn't, I never saw them as a real couple.

It uses the classic romance movie trope of 'one conversation would solve this misunderstanding', and for me, that's one of the most frustrating ways to create conflict.

And lastly, the first kiss of this couple was so insignificant that I missed it twice and had to keep rewinding, which says a lot about the movie in general.

Overall, after watching this movie, I realised that I had actually watched it a couple of years ago and had absolutely no recollection. I hope I don't come across it in another 2 years.

Originality - 4/10

Christmas Spirit - 5/10

Christmas Music - 3/10

It's 14 days until Christmas!

Come back tomorrow for Blogmas day 12!