Marry Me (2022)
After twenty years of playing diverse characters in romantic comedies, thrillers, and family dramas, it’s about time Jennifer Lopez got to sit back, relax, and just play herself. In Marry Me, she plays a superstar singer who performs in explicit dances, outrageous costumes, and surrounds herself in white furniture. She’s all set to marry a collaborating artist, Maluma, with whom she’s written a duet “Marry Me”, live on the stage during a concert, but while she’s in her wedding gown waiting in the wings, she sees a video posted to social media of her fiancé kissing her assistant. In this day and age, an embarrassment on social media is the worst thing in the world, so to save face, she gives the audience a different stunt: she pulls a stranger out of the audience and asks him to marry her.
The good news is out of all the millions of people, she happens to pick a good-looking, intelligent, single man with no serious problems and a steady, respectable job. Really, folks, she could have picked a married man and her publicity stunt would have completely backfired. He could have been a raging jerk, a drug dealer, or someone she just felt uncomfortable around. But it’s Hollywood, so she picked Owen Wilson out of the crowd. He’s a decent, sweet man (although he does have baggage, in the form of a twelve-year-old daughter) who has good values and understands the real world more than technology (he still has a flip phone).
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more modern movie than Marry Me. Full of ethnically and sexually diverse characters, and also including handicapped children in the math club, the film uses cell phone and livestream footage inserted into the scenes. Kids today are used to seeing words, filters, and a constant stream of comments on top of video footage, but the old farts in the audience might be a bit shocked. Maluma also speaks almost exclusively in Spanish, and given the growing Spanish speaking population in the country, it’s very interesting to see a movie that truly blends the old generation with the new.
Entertaining, sweet, romantic, and very easy on the eyes, I definitely recommend this movie unless you absolutely hate the cast. But as a ’90s kid, who grew up with posters of Jennifer Lopez on my wall and went to the theaters to see The Wedding Planner, I pretty much knew I’d like this movie.
More Owen Wilson movies here!
The good news is out of all the millions of people, she happens to pick a good-looking, intelligent, single man with no serious problems and a steady, respectable job. Really, folks, she could have picked a married man and her publicity stunt would have completely backfired. He could have been a raging jerk, a drug dealer, or someone she just felt uncomfortable around. But it’s Hollywood, so she picked Owen Wilson out of the crowd. He’s a decent, sweet man (although he does have baggage, in the form of a twelve-year-old daughter) who has good values and understands the real world more than technology (he still has a flip phone).
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more modern movie than Marry Me. Full of ethnically and sexually diverse characters, and also including handicapped children in the math club, the film uses cell phone and livestream footage inserted into the scenes. Kids today are used to seeing words, filters, and a constant stream of comments on top of video footage, but the old farts in the audience might be a bit shocked. Maluma also speaks almost exclusively in Spanish, and given the growing Spanish speaking population in the country, it’s very interesting to see a movie that truly blends the old generation with the new.
Entertaining, sweet, romantic, and very easy on the eyes, I definitely recommend this movie unless you absolutely hate the cast. But as a ’90s kid, who grew up with posters of Jennifer Lopez on my wall and went to the theaters to see The Wedding Planner, I pretty much knew I’d like this movie.
More Owen Wilson movies here!