last weekend was enough to confirm that the former tabloid darling is back in a big way. It’s that kind of buzzy excitement that makes Lohan’s latest film with Netflix,felt like an event—one that, granted, had the magical Rudolph-red hue of the holidays working in its favor—plays like a run-of-the-mill streaming romantic comedy that was dropped on its head and is stumbling around, trying to convince everyone that it doesn’t have a concussion.
Christmas movies are expected to have a tolerable level of kitsch. It’s part of their charm. But those low standards don’t apply to other seasonal fare, and certainly not to a love story released in time for St. Patrick’s Day.is bland, woefully flat, and entirely devoid of laughs, and is a vacuum of charisma when its star isn’t in the frame.
In the movie, Lohan plays Maddie, a clumsy book editor with a soft heart and an inability to stick up for herself. We learn that at the top of the film, when Maddie’s scarf is caught in the door of her cab, and the car peels off with it stuck inside—luckily leaving her without a trip to the ER and a critical neck injury. This physical comedy is exactly what Lohan is so adept at and game for, andis packed with these moments.
Blessedly, the film was shot on-location on the Emerald Isle, which at least makes it pleasant to look at . Maddie and her friends are in Ireland for the wedding of Maddie’s most successful author, Paul Kennedy , who is not James Kennedy from, though you will likely keep thinking that’s who the characters are referring to.
, who plays Maddie’s best friend Heather, come close to matching Lohan’s naturalism, but even they are hampered by a downright baffling script.is a genuinely poorly made film, even by Netflix rom-com standards. An early cut from Maddie and Paul’s book party to Maddie and her friends in a car, out on the town, comes with a positivelymusic cue that isn’t mixed into the film at all.
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