My Review. Anyone But You
My Rating. 6:10
Very very loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" with even a few quotations in the background and title cards this pleasant enough rom com reminds me of a line from a 16 th Century play The Merchant of Venice by same William Shakespeare, "All that glisters is not gold".
Which of course translates in today's language "All that glitters is not gold ".
Anyone But You has a pleasant cast set in and around Sydney which is fun to spot locations like the QVB building, and our beautiful harbour vistas and pristine beaches.
I was reminded of a far superior Classic romantic comedy "My Best Friend's Wedding " 1997 when I saw the actor playing the brides father Dermot Mulroney who achieved great success playing a similar lead 26 years ago to Glen Powell who plays Ben the romantic lead man in this movie.
I enjoyed both the young leads Sydney Sweeney who plays Bea and Glen Powell who play the star crossed lovers .
The differences and similarities for me in great romance comedies with weddings like My Best Friends Wedding and more recently Crazy Rich Asians is obvious they all look fabulous with surroundings that celebrate the affluence of wealthy privileged people .
Where they differ from each other is in the quality of the script writing in this case by Ilana Wolpert and Will Gluck.
Light comedy can be clever if it's not pretentious why try and improve on Shakespeare? It's an impossible task.
Anyone But You is entertaining but parts of it I found really irritating and contrived.
Adding a same sex wedding was a nice modern touch but it's the most heterosexual same sex wedding I've ever seen not one Gay in this village except Claudia and Halle the betrothed couple.
The most irritating characters for me were the parents of the brides played by Dermot Mulroney, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown and Michelle Hurd they all seemed to be trying to hard .
I can't be to critical of this light comedy that probably appeals to a younger audience demographic than myself .
I hope it succeeds overseas as we need to export more home grown cinema product from Australia but we can't just rely on great scenery and cute animal platitudes like winking koalas .
Very very loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" with even a few quotations in the background and title cards this pleasant enough rom com reminds me of a line from a 16 th Century play The Merchant of Venice by same William Shakespeare, "All that glisters is not gold".
Which of course translates in today's language "All that glitters is not gold ".
Anyone But You has a pleasant cast set in and around Sydney which is fun to spot locations like the QVB building, and our beautiful harbour vistas and pristine beaches.
I was reminded of a far superior Classic romantic comedy "My Best Friend's Wedding " 1997 when I saw the actor playing the brides father Dermot Mulroney who achieved great success playing a similar lead 26 years ago to Glen Powell who plays Ben the romantic lead man in this movie.
I enjoyed both the young leads Sydney Sweeney who plays Bea and Glen Powell who play the star crossed lovers .
The differences and similarities for me in great romance comedies with weddings like My Best Friends Wedding and more recently Crazy Rich Asians is obvious they all look fabulous with surroundings that celebrate the affluence of wealthy privileged people .
Where they differ from each other is in the quality of the script writing in this case by Ilana Wolpert and Will Gluck.
Light comedy can be clever if it's not pretentious why try and improve on Shakespeare? It's an impossible task.
Anyone But You is entertaining but parts of it I found really irritating and contrived.
Adding a same sex wedding was a nice modern touch but it's the most heterosexual same sex wedding I've ever seen not one Gay in this village except Claudia and Halle the betrothed couple.
The most irritating characters for me were the parents of the brides played by Dermot Mulroney, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown and Michelle Hurd they all seemed to be trying to hard .
I can't be to critical of this light comedy that probably appeals to a younger audience demographic than myself .
I hope it succeeds overseas as we need to export more home grown cinema product from Australia but we can't just rely on great scenery and cute animal platitudes like winking koalas .