{"id":1458668,"date":"2023-12-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/?p=1458668"},"modified":"2023-12-26T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T13:30:49","slug":"anyone-but-you-review-the-cliche-rom-com-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/movies\/reviews\/1458668-anyone-but-you-review-the-cliche-rom-com-formula","title":{"rendered":"Anyone But You Review: The Clich\u00e9 Rom-Com Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you saw the trailer for this movie and have seen any romantic comedy movie in your life, you know what happens in Anyone But You<\/a><\/strong>. This modern adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” stars Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney as a guy and a girl who meet, have a connection, and a wonderful first date but don’t meet again until a while later. When Ben’s (Powell) friend’s sister marries Bea’s (Sweeney) sister, these almost lovers find themselves stuck on an island together. While there, they decide to pretend to be a couple so that Bea can convince her parents to think she’s in a relationship and Ben can make his ex-girlfriend jealous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that I’ve told you that premise and that it’s a romantic comedy, I think you can gauge where this story will go. My reviews rarely have spoilers in them, but it’s hard to spoil a movie that sticks to a tried-and-true formula to a tee. Anyone But You is directed by Will Gluck, who you may know for directing Easy A, Friends with Benefits, and Peter Rabbit. He has directed many comedies for many demographics, and this is his rated-R rom-com. His screenplay, co-written with Ilana Wolpert, does nothing unique with the genre. It doesn’t approach it from a fresh perspective, nor does it offer any commentary. It simply does every rom-com trope you would expect from a classic ’90s or ’00s movie in the genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some, that will be a huge selling point. Many have missed the theatrically released rom-com, which has declined in recent years. Rom-coms are often seen on streaming now, but the idea of two people pretending to be a couple has been done before in Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. It’s not a particularly fresh idea, and the execution is frustratingly generic. Yes, the story of two people who can’t stand each other being forced to act like a couple can be hilarious, but Anyone But You does not always push the humor or awkwardness far enough for the laughs to land. It’s occasionally funny, but it’s mainly going through the motions of everything you expect out of the genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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