- Sensibility: The film intentionally stretches reality for the sake of humor, but it doesn't always work. Some issues around the raspberry allergy, the logistics of the restaurant, and the kids' lifestyle all add too little to be worth the burden of the inability to suspend disbelief.
- Cinematography: Some decent production design with a beautiful designed house, but also some issues with cgi and lacking visual direction for long stretches of the film. Additionally, an electronic assistant is annoying and feels like a catch-all for some issues with the choreography of certain scenes. Also some strangely edited scenes and transitions make it feel too obvious that things were left out or skipped over.
- Energy: Fun watch with some hiccups around some scenes that feel cut short or edited oddly. In particular, issues around a return to a therapist visit and kids that largely feel like interruptions in the narrative weigh it down.
- Narrative: Classic story, which suffers from the modern additions. The assistant built into the house and weakly-designed children take away from the film overall. However, the film does a fairly good job of capturing how these relationship resentments build in stages and the back and forth nature. The constant interjections for humorous bits about the side characters' marriage issues grows stale quickly and feels like a distraction.
- T-Points: The film received two bonus points: one for an acknowledgement of a lawyer cliché and one for a hilarious final bit from Kate McKinnon's character, Amy, about a trip to Mexico.
Fun rom-com with too little visually or narratively to make it special.
Number of Watches: 2
