Monday, December 25, 2023
Anyone But You
Handsome hunk Ben (Glen Powell) bails out gorgeous law student Bea (Sydney Sweeney) at a coffee shop as she is trying to get the bathroom key. He is flirty & charming. They spend the day together & hit it off. After the morning of their one night stand, things go sour as misunderstandings are made & they go off angrily into their own separate directions hating each other. Six months later, fate brings them back together & they are both uncomfortably invited to an Australian destination wedding for her sister Halle & his friend Pete’s sister Claudia. Being this is a rom/com, hilarity ensues as each of Ben’s & Bea’s ex’s happen to be there for the wedding & people are blatantly trying get B & B together so they try to fake it as a loving couple. If you are a sucker for romantic comedies, you’ll probably like this one. It’s got cheesy lines & cheesy situations. It titillates with a little nudity, an extremely brief bikini, & sexual situations. But B & B are a cute couple that plays wells well off of each other. Of course, there is little doubt where these rom/coms end up. Clips shown during the mid credits give up a musical replay of many highlight moments in the film.
Alien gives it 3 “fear of flying” stars out of 4.
