Romantische Neufassung

I enjoyed this movie. Tangled web with funny outcomes as the plot unfolds. Top cast did a fabulous job acting out the story. Family members and friends depicted well, as I could relate to the ignorant comments and bad choices family make. The unfolding of what writers go through to produce a product was also well-developed in this movie. Only familiar with Kristina Cole and was not familiar with the other cast members. Thought they did a good job bringing this story to life. The setting was ok. I am tired of beach movies so that was a negative for me. Costumes and makeup are top notch..Kuddos to the artists and creative team.

The acting is weak, but the dialogue didn't help. The writer keeps referring to "his hero" to the editor. The ex, who was apparently a "businessman" because he said things like "you're the one deal I can't negotiate". I've been in business for 30 years. Believe me - no one talks like that. And I was so distracted when the lead guy was talking to his sister on the phone. She was supposedly driving, but was turned to the side the entire time. I kept waiting for her to crash. The one positive - I feel so fortunate that I don't have friends who have week long destination wedding celebrations where I have to spend the entire time doing planned activities, such as tug-of-war on the beach - while wearing a dress.

I give this movie an eight for the concept, but a four for the execution, and I'll tell you why in a minute.

First, we liked the actors and thought the leads did a good job. The overall story idea was clever, and as an author, I particularly like movie ideas which include writers. And yes, sometimes an editor can help an author identify issues in their plotting and seriously improve a manuscript.

Here's the other side. Last year I wrote a murder mystery, and over the last two years I've been writing a series of RomComs, so I've kind of got my elbows down in that type of work. They say the guy handles his romance relationship all wrong, and the editor is going to help him improve that. Fine. What they missed were any DETAILS to make that trope more real to the viewer.

In the far superior Trading Christmas, a woman helps a male author with the relationship in his manuscript and what's wrong with his female character, and they at least talk about it enough to understand where the author was going wrong and how to fix it.

None of that here, I'm afraid.

This movie would be above average Reel One Entertainment TV movie but it wouldn't be ROE if they didn't - read at the end.

I really like fake relationship trope and it was executed pretty well. Acting was solid except Reed Favero who played annoying adult brat but people like him exist so it's ok. There was a bit of some bad makeup, lighting, and cuts but nothing serious like in many other ROE TV movies. Movie plot location is in Florida, and it was actually filmed in the beautiful Miami.

There are two reasons why I gave it 4* instead 6*. This is message to Reel One Entertainment - pay somebody to do proper audio production because most of your TV movies suffer from the obnoxiously loud background music! Dialogue in this movie is literally barely audible in Acts I and III - I had to read subtitles which are mostly badly translated in this part of the world! Several scenes also suffer from horrendous audio recording. The second reason is the cast issues. You see, Ivy has parents and married sister Clarisa. Her parents, aunt Edith, sister Clarisa and her husband came to the wedding week, but for some reason her father and brother in law didn't speak a word whole movie. They were just there, and even more insulting is that Clarisa's husband was active in only men's activities but he was mute. And yet her mother and aunt had screen and talking time.

In the typical bad ROE tradition, trailer compress whole movie in 2:06 min so don't watch it if you plan to watch movie as is full of spoilers.

Definitely recommend, it was funny, well written. The cast was new to me, but want to watch more of them. It was beautifully filmed on location. It shows people recognizing their mistakes and apologizing, which's a rare occurrence in this day and age. It involves family members sharing and caring for each other, giving each other constructive support and encouragement, as it should be. I would watch anything from director and cast. Movie is not like the violent, horror language coming out of the Hollywood elite studios today. Wholesome and family friendly, will watch again with my children. Loved it. 10 out of 10.