Marry Me
In Marry Me, Kat (Jennifer Lopez), a famous pop singer is supposed to marry her fiancé and fellow musician Bastian (Maluma) during a concert where they will sing their hit single, “Marry Me” in front of millions of fans around the world. Right before Kat takes the stage to get married, she discovers Bastian has been cheating with her assistant. Heartbroken and tired of being the punch line amongst the press she picks a random man in the crowd, Charlie (Owen Wilson) to marry on stage instead. To avoid further scandal in the aftermath Charlie agrees to work with Kat and her team for months to protect her image. Over the course of those months Charlie and Kat start to fall for one another.
This plot is archaic for 2022, belongs more to decades past. It is a sweet light hearted fluffy movie that skims the surface of relationships with familiar themes: don’t choose a partner who doesn’t protect the relationship and value it as a priority, don’t settle, and step out of your comfort zone because you never know what opportunities await you.
There wasn’t enough character development on Kat. She is just a standard celebrity character we see all the time in movies and not unique enough to really care about her failed relationships and desire to find true love. It isn’t a compelling character struggle to drag to an 1hr 55mins. Needed to be an 1hr 20mins.
Even though this is a romantic comedy the dialogue still could have been smart and scenes reworked to showcase an actual adult connection not just a watered-down version of that.
Marry Me is streaming now Amazon Prime.