‘Marry Me’ Review: Jennifer Lopez & Owen Wilson Star In Far-Fetched Romantic Comedy
deadline.comJennifer Lopez knows a thing or three about media harassment and being in the public eye 24/7, but that only makes the far-fetched romantic comedy Marry Me seem even less tolerable or redeemable than it might have looked on paper.
In its opening minutes, this slickly made, music-drenched concoction serves up a premise so massively implausible — that one of the hottest female singers on the planet would replace her cheating macho fiancé in front of a live TV audience with an ineffectual single dad math teacher in his 50s — that it can never recover.
It is, in two words, perfectly preposterous.Lopez, whose last feature was the far more provocative Hustlers three years ago, plays Kat Valdez, a not unconvincing version of the star herself; she’s a sizzling entertainer at the peak of her powers whose half-her-age singer-partner Bastian (Colombian musician Maluma) has the bright idea to get it on with a hot young thing minutes before he and Kat are supposed to be married onstage at a sold-out concert.
A portion of the show features gyrating nuns.One might think that discovering such egregious misbehavior would be enough to cool Kat, or anyone, on the idea of marriage for at least a week or two.
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