‘Scrambled’ Review: Leah McKendrick’s Darkly Funny Mid-Life Confessional Suffers A Severe Case Of T.M.I – SXSW
deadline.comIt is a truth universally acknowledged that the trampy heroine of any modern female-slanted romcom must make Bridget Jones look like Grace Kelly by comparison.
And while Leah McKendrick’s feature debut offers more caustic com than rom, it leans hard into the legacy of Helen Fielding’s famously underachieving singleton.
Since then, we’ve had Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids and Sophie Hyde’s Animals, and Scrambled certainly belongs in that more riotous subgenre of movies about women behaving badly.
McKendrick takes a different tack to most, though, and its subject matter — how do you prepare for motherhood when you’re not yet fit to be a mother? — is a tough sell, and often feels like raw material for an incredibly personal stand-up set from a comedian that likes to shock with overshare.
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