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Kirstie S HOW has this film, at the time of writing, only for a 78% audience score?! It’s brilliant! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/27/25 Full Review Victoria O I enjoy the film on a basic level. The themes, thoughts and emotions it evokes on a base level are interesting. I feel the script writing was poor however. The acting is great and they appear to just be working with what they got. And it shows. I don’t like the Emily (Cals wife). Some scenes where she gets angry annoyed about the fact that Cal is sleeping around to get over her especially considering she said she wants a divorce annoy me. And she comment on it after the PTA with the teacher. About how “because I cheated first I can’t be angry”. Yes. It’s not an excuse by all means. But you are literally planning to divorce this man. I don’t like Cal. And how he lied about the teacher to his wife. Just tell her. Apologise. He clearly still loves his wife. And that’s ok. I don’t like how he didn’t fight for his. And he says this too and that he regrets not fighting for her either. He feels disgusted that he’s been sleeping around. But honestly I sort of see where he’s coming from. I just feel he should communicate this better with his wife. I hate David Lindogen. Enough said about that 😂 I think we can all agree. Jessica is whole other set of issues. Cal is naive about these sort of things and it should have been stopped before it got too far (like it does). I love Hannah and her character. And I like Jacob. I wish the story was just about them two or just about cal and Emily. As the film seems messy by having too much going on. There’s potential with both story lines and I’m gutted we couldn’t see more and develop one of these story lines. The son is a problem. It seems everyone ignores his crush and feelings for Jessica. His behaviour is Inappropriate. And he is then rewarded by Jessica at the end. She told him no. He should have respected this boundary. He crossed it MULTIPLE times. I feel that this should have been addressed better by his parents. His teacher or by Jessica’s parents. It’s not cute. It’s creepy. And it teaches wrong behaviours. I love the young daughter and I’m gutted we didn’t see a lot more of her. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/03/25 Full Review Ben S Say what you want...this is my favorite rom com of all time. Intertwined storylines that are equally heartfelt as they are hilarious. Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling play off each other incredibly well. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/18/25 Full Review Emmy K This is my favorite movie! It was a charming, funny heartfelt dramedy. Everything about it I love, I would definitely recommend Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/11/25 Full Review Lilah A. cute movie with a lot of heart Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/07/25 Full Review Kevin P An entertaining, but frustrating rom-com that has a great cast with good comedic timing, but kind of flounders in the script. Steve Carell, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomeii, and Kevin Bacon are all great. The Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell subplot is funny and they both share great chemistry, even if the main takeaway in the first half is superficial and just equates to "spend a lotta money". The whole movie's dialogue goes back and forth between funny & genuine, and pretentious/unnatural. The worst element of the movie however involves the middle schooler son and his teen babysitter. The 13 year-old son is super creepy and keeps harassing his babysitter, never taking no for an answer and the movie expects you to feel bad for him when she says no. His dad even explicitly tells him to keep trying, after his son melodramatically claims that "love isn’t real, I thought she was my soulmate" after just one rejection. Hell, he even gets REWARDED by the end when she sends him CP pictures of herself after she finally gives in to his "just wait a few years for me please" demands, likely exhausted from her own weird subplot involving her trying to send pictures to the middle-aged protagonist (thankfully the film treats this part more seriously, but it still feels icky they way it's executed). The 2nd act argument between Steve Carell's character and his ex-wife feels melodramatic with "how dare you sleep with women after we divorced since I cheated on you". Especially when the whole family later turns on him for rightfully calling out everyone's hypocrisy. That being said, I Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's part was cute and I thought they had great chemistry. The plot twist that Emma Stone was Steve Carell's daughter the entire time at the party was a great reveal that I legit didn't see coming. Which escalated into a hilarious 4-way fight between all the confused men in the backyard trying to take all this in. But then Steve Carell's character is the only one who faces any lasting flack for this. I feel bad because Steve Carell is easily the most likable character and he's one of the few characters that gets crap for his actions and ends up being scapegoated as the bad guy (even though his wife cheated on him & kicked him out of the house, his son is a creepy predator, his neighbor is a belligerent assaulter, and Ryan Gosling's character is a womanizer hypocrite). All resolved with a corny speech that becomes weird again with the son's naive twisted view of love and soul mates. The movie starts off strong, but it looses its momentum in the second half. The plot and themes of romance are messy, but the acting and the comedy with the adult characters is very charming keep the movie afloat. I really wanted to love this movie but I'm split. The charismatic performances from the charming cast is enough to carry the movie despite all of the cringy elements. But the cringy frustrating elements of the script drag it down and the movie feels all over the place and with a very thematically messy script. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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