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Film Review: 'Marry Me' Works With Owen Wilson & Jennifer Lopez
CHICAGO – I’ll admit that based on the ubiquitous trailers, The latest attempt for Jennifer Lopez to reclaim the throne as Queen of the Rom-Com seemed like the sort of enterprise meant to make you bury your face in your hands. So I was pleasantly surprised to find “Marry Me” is just innocuously bad, not egregiously bad… and with the state of rom-coms these days that’s something of an accomplishment.
Rating: 3.0/5.0 |
Jennifer Lopez essentially plays Jennifer Lopez here as global pop star Kat Valdez. She has a messy personal life and a string of failed marriages and is about to say “I Do” again with fellow popstar Bastian (Columbian pop star Maluma) in front of an audience of millions. When a video of him cheating sends her into a complete meltdown, her eyes fall upon a face in the crowd and she exchanges vows then and there with a middle school math teacher and single Dad Charlie (Owen Wilson).
Her manager (Colin Calloway) convinces Wilson to go along with the marriage for a few months in order to let the public relations storm blow over. Wilson-as-Charlie isn’t a pushover here, and realizes he’s doing Lopez-as-Kat a far greater favor than what she’s doing for him. He acts as a voice of reason in a sea of annoying sycophants who surround her, and in the middle of photo ops, promotional events and red carpets they each find something they’ve been missing.
Marry Me
Photo credit: Universal Pictures