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With her newfound success, she's become too damn happy and she can't write when she's happy. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he's in love with her.
Lightness in a romcom is all to the good, but this one – for all its charm – could have used just a little more plot ballast.
Gillan has a bright screen presence and bags of appeal, but there’s not much she can do with this clunky ragbag of rom-com clichés.
McKay's film often feels like Richard Curtis-lite for the New Girl generation - minus the jokes and memorable characters.
The dialogue isn't as witty as it needs to be to keep such a stylised affair afloat. Gillan, though, is very engaging as the distracted, Annie Hall-like heroine.
You could dismiss it as another film made by men who've never encountered a flesh-and-blood woman, were it not that the male characters are equally alien, half-heartedly beamed in from Planet Romcomnia.
Contrived, manic and unfunny the film also flounders because of the lack of chemistry between an awkward Gillan and a wooden Weber.
Don't waste time on this but do look out for Karen Gillian.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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