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‘I Give It A Year’ opened today to what has been (despite the exuberant quotes on the poster) mixed reviews.<\/p>\n
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Without giving too much of the plot away, the central theme revolves around the story of a pair of people who met, fell in love and got married inside seven months.<\/p>\n
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The film tracks their lives from their wedding day to their first wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n
The cast has a good go at it.<\/p>\n
I find the two leads, Josh (Rafe Spall) and Nat (Rose Byrne) quite sweet, but I didn’t really engage with the characters they played.<\/p>\n
Ironically the two main supports, Chloe (Anna Farris) and Guy (Simon Baker) do a more convincing job and had me believing in their characters without great effort.<\/p>\n
Let’s be clear.<\/p>\n
Although ‘I Give It A Year’ has a few engaging problems, it is not a bad film. It is an above average film.<\/p>\n
I laughed 13 times, had 8 chuckles and cringed at one awful\u00a0clich\u00e9\u00a0which was re-dressed and played back to us in the end titles and yes, I laughed at that too.<\/p>\n
But there is, at its heart, a big emotional vacuum.<\/p>\n
The only people I cared about were the two supports. The two\u00a0protagonists\u00a0were nice enough, but they were just nice.<\/p>\n
So although ‘I Give It A Year’ is an above average film it is no Bridget Jones. It is no Love Actually. And, to end the lineage, this film is no Four Weddings And A Funeral.<\/p>\n
But it is fun. The laugh ratio is high (but should have been higher). The cringe ration is acceptable.<\/p>\n
And Anna Farris is, in her underwear, very easy on the eye.<\/p>\n
It’s also worth seeing because the beguiling Minnie Driver is in it.<\/p>\n
I’ve given the score of this a lot of thought and, in the end, decided to give this a slightly higher ranking than it should deserve, and this comes after reviewing the laugh count the the performance from the two supports.<\/p>\n
If the two leads had been allowed to shine in the same way, this could easily have been an 8\/10 or possibly a 9\/10, but…<\/p>\n
I Give It A Year: 7\/10<\/strong> The latest British film to attempt to ride on the ‘Four Weddings And A Funeral’ bandwagon (the poster carries the wording ‘From the producers of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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