FILM REVIEW: GIRL MOST LIKELY
Last week I managed to get some tickets, courtesy of The Times, to see the rom-com/chick flick/ whatever the hell you want to call it, 'Girl Most Likely'.
Kristen Wiig plays Imogene, a failed playwright who, after being dumped and losing her boyfriend within the same week, decides to be faux-suicidal in a sick attempt to get him back, but the plan backfires and she ends up in the custody of her short skirted, gambler mother (played by Annette Bening) and has to move back to New Jersey.
My initial thought is that it wouldn't be worth reviewing this film (since I used to have quite a huge crush on Darren Criss), but even my biased eyes could see through what was clearly a flawed and clumsy production.
Sure, it had the basic things that you ask for in a rom-com - the New York backdrop, the endearing lead, the charming love interest - but the film seemed unsure of itself; the pace of the plot seemed like it hadn't been planned out properly, and what scriptwriter Michelle Morgan clearly thought would make a kooky comedy just didn't translate to the big screen, and left you wondering was going on.
All I can say is that, for what the script may have lacked, Kristen Wiig and Darren Criss worked undeniably well together; scenes with Criss singing in a Backstreet Boys tribute band played in such a way that you couldn't help but fall for Criss' dorky charm, and this worked well in contrast to the more emotional scenes which Wiig struggled to make believable.
All criticisms aside, it's a decent film that many fans of the cast will flock to see, and there's a shock (admittedly, random) twist at the end that's so absurd, you can't help but giggle, but I was expecting so much more than a few cheap laughs.
Kristen Wiig plays Imogene, a failed playwright who, after being dumped and losing her boyfriend within the same week, decides to be faux-suicidal in a sick attempt to get him back, but the plan backfires and she ends up in the custody of her short skirted, gambler mother (played by Annette Bening) and has to move back to New Jersey.
My initial thought is that it wouldn't be worth reviewing this film (since I used to have quite a huge crush on Darren Criss), but even my biased eyes could see through what was clearly a flawed and clumsy production.
Sure, it had the basic things that you ask for in a rom-com - the New York backdrop, the endearing lead, the charming love interest - but the film seemed unsure of itself; the pace of the plot seemed like it hadn't been planned out properly, and what scriptwriter Michelle Morgan clearly thought would make a kooky comedy just didn't translate to the big screen, and left you wondering was going on.
All I can say is that, for what the script may have lacked, Kristen Wiig and Darren Criss worked undeniably well together; scenes with Criss singing in a Backstreet Boys tribute band played in such a way that you couldn't help but fall for Criss' dorky charm, and this worked well in contrast to the more emotional scenes which Wiig struggled to make believable.
All criticisms aside, it's a decent film that many fans of the cast will flock to see, and there's a shock (admittedly, random) twist at the end that's so absurd, you can't help but giggle, but I was expecting so much more than a few cheap laughs.
Girl Most Likely, Out 27th September
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