DVD Review: Marry Me

Marry Me

(DVD Marry)

 

Although the premise is ridiculous, the chemistry of the stellar cast still manages to make this a feel-good film. Jennifer Lopez plays Kat Valdez, an international pop star, who is preparing to marry her fellow singing star fiancee in a splash live broadcast. Owen Wilson is Charlie Gilbert, a single-father public school math teacher, struggling to connect to his pre-teen daughter Lou. When Charlie’s co-worker and best friend Parker drags him to the concert/wedding event, he ends up front-and-center in the audience, holding a sign saying “Marry Me” (the title of Kat’s hit new song), when Kat learns, seconds before the wedding ceremony, that her fiancee is been unfaithful to her. Impulsively, Kat dumps Bastian and, seeing Charlie and his sign, agrees to marry Charlie live and in front of thousands of cheering fans.

 

After Charlie agrees, the rest of the film is Kat and Charlie (and Kat’s friends and handlers, and Charlie’s friends and family) trying to figure out what to do next — ultimately agreeing to try to integrate Kat’s and Charlie’s lives enough to for them to learn more about each other. Though the initial premise was ludicrous, Wilson and Lopez end up having terrific chemistry together, and the supporting cast (including Sarah Silverman as Parker, Chloe Coleman as Lou and John Bradley as Kat’s manager, Colin) is lots of fun. South American pop singer Maluma is an appropriate mix of Latin lothario and sleeze as Bastian. There are lots of great little scenes, especially as Kat interacts with the kids at Charlie’s school, but tons of implausibility as well (Kat and Charlie walking his dog down NYC streets without paparazzi following them). None the less, in the end, Marry Me is a fun, feel-good rom-com with some Hollywood superstars in the main roles. I enjoyed it.

 

(Also available in graphic novel format — though not currently in the libraries’ collection.)

 

( Internet Movie Database entry for this film ) | ( official Marry Me Facebook page )

 

Recommended by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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