Once you solid a pair with the chemistry Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell have in Anybody However You, we’ll watch it.
Because the resident romantic comedy lover, I’ve to confess the style has been robust within the final decade. It’s uncommon that we get large price range rom coms coming to theaters like again within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s. Reasonably than a summer time stuffed with 13 Happening 30 or Imply Women or Love Truly (2004 actually was a killer yr), we get perhaps one studio romantic comedy per yr if we’re fortunate.
To be clear, I’m not downplaying the awesomeness of straight-to-streaming love fests. I’ll be the primary to confess that I’m nonetheless obsessive about Netflix’s Happiness for Rookies. However the place are the Meg Ryans and Tom Hanks? The place’s the massive purple carpet fanfare? Fortunately we acquired a studio rom com towards the tail-end of 2023 that will simply reignite the style. Better of all, it simply launched on Netflix.
We’re speaking about Anybody However You, the Shakespeare-inspired romantic comedy starring Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) and Glen Powell (High Gun: Maverick). After a candy night time collectively following probably the most lovable espresso store meet cute, Bea and Ben fall sufferer to the basic misunderstanding–a rom com staple–turning them from budding lovers to mortal enemies. However they will’t simply ignore one another, as a result of they’re each invited to the identical wedding ceremony.
Anybody However You has every little thing that’s been lacking from the style.
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It’s been a very long time since a romantic comedy got here out that adopted the method whereas nonetheless feeling contemporary. You possibly can thank the indie rom com pattern for that, selecting ambiguous or unhappy endings over the eternally optimistic blissful endings that the style was initially recognized for. You could possibly not be sure that the couple would find yourself collectively ultimately, a stressor few of us want proper now. Fortunately Anybody However You is far more just like the romantic comedies that got here earlier than it.
Wish to watch two scorching individuals with simple chemistry fall in love? Wish to reside vicariously by means of impossibly wealthy individuals as they spend their days in a mansion on the Australian coast? Wish to concurrently throttle the couple for not being sincere with their emotions, but in addition need to be them, stat? That’s Anybody However You for you. May the entire couple’s issues be solved simply by talking truthfully with one another? Certain, but when each film did that, each movie can be about one minute lengthy.
Cash talks, and Anybody However You might need proved to execs that the style isn’t useless.
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Perhaps we will blame the Marvel cinematic universe for the intense lack of romantic comedies. Studios thought individuals solely cared about superheroes or remakes of their favourite films from childhood. Sadly, cash talks. Fortunately, Anybody However You was a field workplace success. It earned over $216 million globally, which is sort of ten occasions what they spent making it. Add in the truth that it has earned a Rotten Tomatoes viewers rating of 87% and that could be signal that we’ll be having a rom com renaissance. (Fingers crossed.)
Catch Anybody However You on Netflix
Now you can stream Anybody However You on Netflix.