Film Review - Isn't It Romantic (2019)

Isn’t it Romantic is a Warner Bros/Netflix movie starring Rebel Wilson as Natalie who works as an architect but is ignored by those around her including a company client named Blake (Liam Hemsworth) but after a mugging attempt leaves her in hospital she wakes up in a very different New York that could or could not resemble a romantic comedy.

Isn’t It Romantic is not a bad movie and certainly Netflix has participated in a fair few of those but its also not that great of a one either, it just becomes very forgettable after a while but before I delve more into those I will talk about what I did like and firstly the production design and the cinematography of the Rom Com style New York is very nice, everything looks sparkly and clean like in a film like Pretty Woman and the colours are very bold and bright much like a musical.

And also I did like both Mr Hemsworth as Blake who plays kind of the Gaston type role in this movie and channels his charisma (must run in the family) very nicely and also Ms Priyanka Chopra is a lot of fun in this movie and almost steals the show with her comedic timing, I liked her so much in fact that part of me wishes she was playing Princess Jasmine in the live action Aladdin later this year she would’ve done a good job with that role.

But for a movie that so wants to point at all the hallmarks of the romantic comedy genre it sadly becomes undone by them the main one being that it becomes blindly obvious who is going to end up together at the end of the film and your just waiting for that moment to come on screen so it can be over and done with and also I find Ms Wilson to not be that funny, a lot of the time she can be very obnoxious and she uses that to try and get a laugh out of you and for me personally I don’t find that to be very funny plus she tends to also shout for a laugh as well and again for me I’m not a big fan of that.

And so that was Isn’t It Romantic and look its okay but its not a movie I’ll be going back to again especially when 2 legendary rom coms When Harry Met Sally… and Pretty Woman are around and those are great movie in their own right, 2 out of 5.