Isn’t It Romantic is a comedy/romance about Natalie, a young woman who’s become disenchanted with love and mysteriously finds herself trapped inside a romantic comedy.

The good news about director Todd Strauss-Schulson’s movie is that I did laugh and smile a few times. The beautiful city of New York and all the scenes before Natalie wakes up in the hospital are the ones I enjoyed the most. What I like about these scenes is the way Natalie made fun of romantic comedies. The disappointment then came for me when she found herself inside a romantic comedy, which turned out not to be an especially good one.

The vibrant colours and the humour in the super-romantic New York scenes were fun in parts, but after a while, it didn’t do a good job of holding my interest. Something about Isn’t it Romantic made the movie feel as though it shouldn’t have been the final draft, because if it had felt more finished, maybe I’d have been convinced by Natalie’s emotional journey and the way it was executed.

Another moment I didn’t find convincing is the actual presentation of the ‘parking lot conversion’ idea. Not that I have any actual architectural experience, but as someone who’s been in many presentations, I wanted to buy into Natalie’s idea and visualise it as a good and feasible one, but it just didn’t happen.

Watch Isn’t It Romantic if you’re so curious. The trailer is pretty fun so you may find that you enjoy the finnished film more than I did.

Happy Film loving,

G