What a horribly inconsistent movie. Featuring the cheapest wardrobe I've ever seen. Our lead and Snoop both look like kids wearing their daddy's uniform. It's hilarious. The story editing is awkward.
The messaging is all about anti-classism while at the same time being weirdly sexist. Our lead Henry is alarmingly forward in every scene UNTIL the girl actually comes to him and tell him she likes him then all of a sudden he goes full classist talking about how he's not good enough for her. It's completely inconsistent with all the messaging prior to it.
There's a hilarious scene where we're supposed to feel something for the patriarch of the family whom we clearly see in the beginning of the movie as both an idiot and a racist. It's like the movie can't keep it's ideas straight. Does it have 70s sexism or 90s anti-classism. Even the big finale is weak in both concept and execution.
This idea was done MUCH MUCH MUCH better in She's Out of My League. There at least the conflict isn't between two people who clearly like it each except for the very times when one admits they're into the other. There the conflict is between the couple who are perfectly happily into each other and their friends who insist they're an unbalanced match.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2021-09-16T02:16:24Z— updated 2021-11-06T23:57:57Z
What a horribly inconsistent movie. Featuring the cheapest wardrobe I've ever seen. Our lead and Snoop both look like kids wearing their daddy's uniform. It's hilarious. The story editing is awkward.
The messaging is all about anti-classism while at the same time being weirdly sexist. Our lead Henry is alarmingly forward in every scene UNTIL the girl actually comes to him and tell him she likes him then all of a sudden he goes full classist talking about how he's not good enough for her. It's completely inconsistent with all the messaging prior to it.
There's a hilarious scene where we're supposed to feel something for the patriarch of the family whom we clearly see in the beginning of the movie as both an idiot and a racist. It's like the movie can't keep it's ideas straight. Does it have 70s sexism or 90s anti-classism. Even the big finale is weak in both concept and execution.
This idea was done MUCH MUCH MUCH better in She's Out of My League. There at least the conflict isn't between two people who clearly like it each except for the very times when one admits they're into the other. There the conflict is between the couple who are perfectly happily into each other and their friends who insist they're an unbalanced match.