After a disastrous one night stand, Ben (Glen Powell) and Bea (Sydney Sweeney) find themselves stuck together at a destination wedding for mutual friends. In order to keep the peace, they agree to fake a relationship but soon find that feelings are complicated.
This is meant to be an updated version of Much Ado About Nothing that cuts out all the stuff that isn't Benedict and Beatrice, but there's a reason those are side characters. They cannot carry a whole movie on banter. Maybe other actors could and Powell is certainly game (although he really gets screwed by the script) but there's no chemistry and the bickering is forced and juvenile. Ironically, the side characters really shine. Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, and Bryan Brown understood the assignment and carried on like loyal soldiers.
Again, I'm not a rom-com person so feel free to take my opinion with a grain of salt, but this bears no comparison to the Branagh-Thompson movie. It is streaming on Hulu, though.
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