Lady Gaga stripping back for A Star Is Born, this is not. Kat blends so seamlessly with Lopez’s own career and image that Marry Me essentially doubles as an excuse for Lopez and Maluma to release a joint album for their existing fanbases. Yet it does not feel stale, because Marry Me demonstrates a shrewd understanding of the way modern celebrity operates, and in particular of the way Lopez’s does. The stars are gorgeous, the outfits are glamorous and the real estate is enviable - even Charlie, a high school math teacher, enjoys an implausibly spacious New York City apartment - and director Kat Coiro captures it all with the high-gloss polish that big-city dreams are made of.Ĭoming in an era when rom-com films seem more often than not to take the form of subversions, genre hybrids or bittersweet dramedies, Marry Me‘s old-fashioned romanticism feels in some ways like a throwback. There are meet-cutes and grand romantic gestures, a funny best friend (Charlie’s coworker Parker, played by Sarah Silverman) and an adorable moppet (Charlie’s daughter Lou, played by Chloe Coleman). Marry Me is a big, frothy studio rom-com of the sort Lopez used to headline 20 years ago - or perhaps more accurately, of the sort Julia Roberts used to headline before that, since the plot is basically Notting Hill with the odd Pretty Woman reference. Screenwriters: John Rogers, Tami Sagher, Harper Dill Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, John Bradley, Chloe Coleman, Sarah Silverman, Michelle Buteau
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