bbretall-1 Review of Isn't It Romantic

Isn't It Romantic (2019)

This movie is best viewed if you have NOT seen the trailer

[5/10 · 15 February 2019]

In the trailer, this movie looked REALLY funny. The problem for me was that they put the punchline to all the funniest bits in this movie into that trailer, which really detracted from the experience of seeing the actual movie. The plot has Rebel Wilson hitting her head and waking up in a PG-13 Romantic comedy. They poke fun at the tropes you see in romantic comedies, so it's way better if you have watched films in this genre before, or else you're not going to get a lot of the humor. The first third of the film was funny (except I had seen many of the jokes already), it started to drag in the middle, and I dozed off for a few minutes near the end and missed the mechanism by which she returned to the "real" world, so the film was clearly not keeping my rapt attention. I wish I had not seen the trailer about 10 times in front of lots of other movies over the past month or two.