A few reviews

[Gaith]

What If - 2014 - 7/10

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Tart romantic comedy.
Couple meet at a party, chat, drift away, but leave together so he walks her home.
She doesn’t invite him inside, advising her boyfriend will be so worried.
Instead, she writes down her phone number and says “call me.”
Oh yeah, whatever.
Still, being squarely in the romantic genre, they do succumb to natural attraction and become buddies.
Each is on the other’s friend shelf.
Dialogue driven film, rather clever dialogue, with characters who are career professionals, who don’t want to cause or inflict emotional carnage, but who also don’t want to miss out on the real thing.
Good date film. Know thyself, though. These are not giggling twenty year olds, nor is the film aimed at that crowd.

I wanted to like this one more than I did, but the characters would simply not shut up for even a moment, and their constant prattling over one vapid subject after another (many of them scatological) ended up bugging the heck out of me. Then there were weird tone shifts, including a second-story pratfall so ludicrous I was sure it was an Imagine Spot... but no, it was real. And the girl's ultra-cutesy butterflies-and-ponies animation job... ugh. Watchable, and tolerable, but I wouldn't recommend it.