You know a certain genre has reached a level of ubiquity
when ‘it’s ___ for people who hate ___’ is a legit selling point. Of course,
saying that most rom-coms are trope-fests zested with clichés ahoy isn’t
exactly controversial; hell, pointing that out is itself a bloody cliché at
this point. I myself have made it a habit of pointing this shit out whenever I
cover romance flicks, and the ones that I particularly gravitate towards like
The Breaker Upperers and even Silver Linings Playbook actively subvert those
same clichés. But even with that in mind, given my lukewarm reception to Rebel
Wilson and Adam Devine, I wasn’t expecting all that much from this. But
finally, it seems like they’re both attached to a project that knows how to
fully utilise them.
