PLOT: Facilities on the strained relationship between younger mom Morgan Grant and her teenage daughter Clara, exacerbated by Morgan’s husband Chris’s tragic loss of life, forcing them to navigate life’s challenges collectively.
REVIEW: When you’ve been round social media the previous month, then chances are high you’ve seen Mason Thames and McKenna Grace selling their new movie collectively. The actual-life couple appears to be your entire advertising push behind Regretting You, and after seeing it, I’m beginning to perceive why. They’ve an infectious power collectively and it makes their love story plausible. Too unhealthy it’s on this film. I used to be additionally tasked with reviewing the different Colleen Hoover film, and it’s made me come to 1 conclusion: this girl can’t write. Her tales are essentially the most cliché, nonsensical ramblings of somebody who needs to put in writing romance however doesn’t perceive what makes a love story truly make an impression. So let’s get into this assessment…
Regretting You follows the story of younger love and “forbidden” love. Grace’s Clara and Thames’ Miller are excessive schoolers who get collectively in the course of the course of the story, and, regardless of the actors’ chemistry, it’s arduous to root for them. Miller is in a relationship already, and it takes one thing away from their Meetcute. As a lot as they attempt to restore that by the tip, the injury is finished, and it makes the coupling really feel a bit off. Even nonetheless, Thames and Grace have such chemistry that it’s one of many higher points of the film. You simply must ignore a few of the uglier parts. Allison Williams’ Morgan and Dave Franco’s Jonah have this “have loved each other since High School” storyline that hits each cliché you may consider. And does somebody must remind Jonah that he has a child at residence? As a result of the dude appears to overlook concerning the little man quite a bit.
Then there’s the entire subplot involving Morgan’s sister and husband, who tragically move away and throw everybody’s worlds into disarray. It will get drawn out so lengthy and is so sloppily executed that it simply provides to the frustration of the narrative. The largest subject is that each single one in all these characters is so deeply unlikable. Whether or not it’s dishonest on their important others or utilizing them for nefarious causes, it’s arduous to not look down on these individuals. And it doesn’t assist that every thing feels so surface-level that even the deaths don’t have the impression that they need to. There are such a lot of conflicting tones right here that the movie doesn’t appear to know what it needs to be from one second to the subsequent.
I’m a large fan of Josh Boone’s Caught In Love, so it’s disappointing to see the place the author/director has fallen. He and screenwriter Susan McMartin do the perfect they’ll, however the materials simply isn’t excellent. It’s so stereotypical, and each single plot thread resolves in essentially the most anticipated manner attainable. I do know, RomComs might be fairly predictable, however this takes it to a complete new degree. I’m conscious that Colleen Hoover will get clowned for being a foul author, however I simply don’t perceive why studios are persevering with to adapt her work. Her characters are paper-thin, and the story beats are virtually a guidelines of each romantic cliché that has ever existed. At this level, I’m unsure I see the distinction between her writing and a ChatGPT immediate. It’s arduous to not simply really feel sorry for the actors, who’re all doing their greatest.
I’m certain these in search of a breezy RomCom will nonetheless take pleasure in Regretting You however it’s arduous to not see its flaws. As respectable because the performances are, they’re in characters that vary from awkwardly unlikable to crazy comedian aid. Particular person moments work effective, with Grace and Thames having an absurd quantity of chemistry, however practically every thing else falls flat. Remorse is a large theme of this film, and it’s one thing many moviegoers will probably be experiencing as they depart the theater.
Regretting You is taking part in In Theaters on October twenty fourth 2025.
