‘Marry Me’ review: Jennifer Lopez’s best rom-com in years
11.02.2022 - 00:33
/ nypost.com
out Friday on Peacock.Playing pop superstar Kat Valdez, she is about to wed a sexy singer named Bastian (played by Colombian sensation Maluma) live on TV for an audience of 20 million. Then, moments before the nuptials, Page Six reveals that her fiancé went to third base with her assistant. “Why do I always pick the wrong guys?” she says.Huh.
That sounds awfully familiar…Adding even more authenticity, Page Six’s own Ian Mohr has a role in the film as a gossip reporter. (He’s since turned into a huge diva.
I have to pick up his matcha latte when I’m finished with this.) For Lopez, who also produced the movie, casting a real Page Sixer who has written extensively about her life is a confident move — and speaks to why “Marry Me,” as formulaic as it is, is such an enjoyable romp. J.Lo exudes A-list star power in a way we’re not used to seeing in films anymore.
She’s proud of who she is and bares few insecurities. We feel downright lucky to spend a couple of hours with her.The 1990s-style shakeup in Harper Dill and John Rogers’ script (based on Bobby Crosby’s graphic novel) is that, immediately after the Bastian cheating scandal, Kat decides from up onstage to wed the first man she sees in the crowd.
That’s Charlie, a Brooklyn middle school math teacher played by Owen Wilson, who doesn’t own a smartphone and hardly knows who Kat is.With the encouragement of the coworker (a toned-down Sarah Silverman) who dragged him to the concert, he plays along, and what begins as a publicity stunt — the couple appears together on talk shows and Instagram Stories — grows into something deeper. A smitten Kat cancels a work trip to Japan to visit Charlie’s after-school math team practice and meets his young daughter.It’s a 2020s “Notting
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