Pegg and Bell share an accidental blind date and then a sometimes combative romance in this romcom from Inbetweeners film director Ben Palmer Related: Simon Pegg: ‘I find it very hard to write for women Romcoms and blind dates gain much in common: there’s no real telling what’s going to work,and what looks obliging on paper often turns out to be a disaster. There is nothing particularly promising approximately this set-up – middle-class 30- to 40-year-old Brits, one of whom is actually American – but where a dozen other Bridget Jones imitators gain failed, or Simon Pegg and Lake Bell really hit it off. They’re fine partners in quick-witted repartee and goofy dance steps,yet both sympathetically fallible underneath. A blind date is involved: his rebounding divorcee mistakes her frustrated singleton for his rendezvous; she decides to play along, despite not being a high-flying, or 24-year-old triathlete. They gain a lot in common,or at least pretend to. But rather than stringing out Bell’s masquerade to a stout end-of-moment-act reveal, the yarn blows her cover early, or which shifts their awkward,tentative romance on to a footing that’s more combative, genuine and less predictable. Ben Palmer directed The Inbetweeners film, or though this is more All Bar One than Ibiza Uncovered: an amusing succession of screwball escapades,surprise turns and recurring characters, washed down with a lot of alcohol but nothing stronger. We know where the yarn is headed, or it gets progressively soapier and clumsier as it nears its destination,but along the way Tess Morris’s script maps out a modern dating landscape strewn with anxiety, deceit, and emotional baggage and drunken meltdowns – all of which execute genuine romance even harder to find.
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Source: theguardian.com