Ms. Matched

The male lead was likable. And the tension between him and the female lead got me laughing.

However, both the female lead and her bridal client look very immature, treating the male characters like they're cynical bad guys for advocating a responsible budget. Alexa PenaVega's character goes back and forth so many times, that I think it should scare off the love interest. At one point, she turns pretty nasty, and she never apologizes for it.

A lot of viewers have criticized the ending, and I will too. It came so totally out of left field. It's okay to have surprises in a story, but those surprises still need to be consistent with the plot and characters.

Libby Boland (Alexa PenaVega) is a hard-working wedding planner starting up with her assistant Michelle. She meets Ben Reynolds (Shawn Roberts) at a wedding convention and sparks fly. He's a writer and he's promoting his first book, 'Wedding Day Do's and Don'ts'. To her horror, his book advocates for cheap unadorned weddings.

This is Hallmark doing a Hallmark movie. Of course, Libby is a wedding planner. The guy is so clueless that he doesn't get why she's mad. He's literally destroying her business and doesn't know why she's not head over heels over him. It would be so much better if he doesn't do the puppy dog face and go full antagonist. He comes off as dumb which his character is definitely not. It's not endearing to her and it's very frustrating. He needs to understand her point of view or else he comes off as a bad match. That's the crux of this movie. They need to be a good match but the movie does nothing other than they're relatively photogenic. She's no catch either in her superiority. Neither are appealing and they only match as infuriating characters. There is a way to do this but this movie has no clue getting there.

Normally a movie this bad doesn't deserve a review, but maybe I can save future people some time and tell you not to bother. Let's be honest, most romantic comedies aren't exactly realistic but they're still enjoyable and most of us have a little part inside that hopes we will have our own fairy tale someday. This. Was. Ridiculous. I still don't understand how the ending helped anyone, and I still don't understand what in the world the male lead could have seen in Libby. Skip this, unless you want to see an over-the-top ending that makes zero sense.

I love Hallmark movies, but I really like a few of them. This is one of the even better ones. These two have different ideas about what a wedding should be. The man thinks you should save your money and be practical, because he was once hurt. While the woman thinks it is your one perfect day and you should make it special. The only weird part is the end. OK watch James Welch Henderson, Arkansas 6/18/2021.

I usually enjoy a good amount of Hallmark movies, even though they're not amazing, but this one was the worst movie I've ever seen! It made absolutely no sense and was just bizarre! The person that wrote this movie had to have been inebriated.