I love romcoms. I love the cheese and the absurd. I love the soothing predictability. I love the contrived plots. Alas, even as The Other Zoey ticks all these boxes, it is one of the worst romcoms I have seen in a long time.
When a football playing college guy has an accident and suffers from amnesia, he thinks a girl who is brilliant in many ways, but not an on-paper match, is his girlfriend...and she decides to fake her way through a weekend with him while angling for his cousin.
Sounds like a set-up that could be a lot of fun, if only the movie dared to do anything with this premise and embrace it. Instead, it simply follows the path of its forebears with little charisma or aplomb.
I'll just say that the performances and casting choices are passable, so objectively you can probably find worse movies. But if you're going to just do a variation on a theme, then you better have a banging script that's in some ways irreverent or witty. Instead, TOZ is a formulaic, unfunny, reductive, box-ticking waste of heart beats.
If this is the kind of romcom that younger generations have to watch, my friends, I am sorry to say, we find ourselves in the romantic post-apocalypse. 3.
When a football playing college guy has an accident and suffers from amnesia, he thinks a girl who is brilliant in many ways, but not an on-paper match, is his girlfriend...and she decides to fake her way through a weekend with him while angling for his cousin.
Sounds like a set-up that could be a lot of fun, if only the movie dared to do anything with this premise and embrace it. Instead, it simply follows the path of its forebears with little charisma or aplomb.
I'll just say that the performances and casting choices are passable, so objectively you can probably find worse movies. But if you're going to just do a variation on a theme, then you better have a banging script that's in some ways irreverent or witty. Instead, TOZ is a formulaic, unfunny, reductive, box-ticking waste of heart beats.
If this is the kind of romcom that younger generations have to watch, my friends, I am sorry to say, we find ourselves in the romantic post-apocalypse. 3.