'Marry Me' Review: When a movie has to spend almost two hours trying and failing to justify a ridiculous premise, someone really wanted to get it made
Where does one begin to tell the story of how great a love can be? A sweet love story that is older than the sea? Certainly not with “Marry Me,” which carries with it a toxic breeze of desperation, never mind determination: When a movie has to spend almost two hours trying and failing to justify a ridiculous premise, someone really wanted to get it made. Those watching on Peacock will be wondering who. And why. And how.
The perpetrators include Jennifer Lopez as the mega music-dance-endorsements diva Kat Valdez, who is about to marry her feckless boyfriend Bastian in front of 20,000 live fans and 20 million live-streaming Instagram viewers at a New York venue very much like Madison Square Garden. It’s the kind of intimate affair that screams “love match.
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