Is not it romantic? Movie review: Priyanka Chopra As A Femme Fatale. Now streaming on Netflix

Distribution: Rebel Wilson, Priyanka Chopra, Adam DeVine and Liam Hemsworth

Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson

Rating: 2.5 stars (of 5))

The model of swimsuit Isabella, the seductress that plays Priyanka Chopra in is not it romantic? describes herself as an ambbadador of yoga. What his appeal really implies is never clear and the film leaves no chance for the character to dwell on the physical, mental or spiritual dimensions of the traditional discipline that she claims to represent. She is rather projected as a femme fatale who crushes the fantastic world in which one strikes in the head and transports the protagonist, Natalie (Rebel Wilson). At the end of her strength, the latter turns to Isabella, who has easily weaned the man that the heroine secretly loves: "Ambbadador is for a country, not to stretch".

One actually understands, but is not it romantic? broadcast internationally on Netflix, is about to become a flight so pretty that the player can count on a mix of depredation and seriousness in the conventions of the romantic comedy. A Hollywood genre with his own canon set and much loved.

For one, the heroine Is not it it? is the antithesis of the stereotype of the "pretty girl" embodied by Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Drew Barrymore, Kate Hudson and Reese Witherspoon (Julia and Drew even appear in the film via old Roman pictures -com). Interpreted by the effervescent Rebel Wilson, Natalie learns that she is "built like a cement truck", but that's not the only reason she despises the Roma-com.

His disgust of the genre finds its roots in the early 1990s in Australia, where in the opening scene, a pre-teenage, Natalie, is absorbed by Pretty Woman . His mother (Jennifer Saunders) burst into the room and reminds the girl that there is no happy ending in real life for women like her. Not only mom, my dearest, does not understand the fact that "it's only a movie", she also tells Natalie that Julia Roberts has "a million dollar smile" and "beautiful hair". Aware that she does not have one or the other, the girl grows hating silly love stories, woolly rabbit heads, perpetuated by the machine. dream Hollywood.

Twenty-five years later, Natalie is in New York and works as an architect in a company. where his sense of self-esteem is constantly undermined. She has only two friends in the office, her badistant Whitney (Betty Gilpin) and a nerdy project manager, Josh (Adam Devine). In a sequence, she launches into a full-blown tirade against romantic comedians when she catches Whitney watching The Wedding Singer and worshiping her. "Roma are toxic," says Natalie. She rejects another rom-com as "a shitty masterpiece".

Is not it romantic? Review of the film: An image of the film. (Courtesy of Netflix)

On the way home, Natalie is shot by an abuser. She saves herself and she but trying to escape the scene, she hits a post and is stunned by the cold. The "damage" propels her into "a kind of parallel universe" – "a womb for lone women" – in which she smells of lavender, her messy carpet turns into a spacious and chic apartment, her pet's Lazy company is rising up, she becomes the owner of a wide range of pretty, perfectly fitted shoes, and even the limousine that almost hits her belongs to the charming billionaire Blake (Liam Hemsworth), the man who charged the firm for which she works to build her next hotel. Life promises to be a bed of roses from now on, but the lady is so desperate to return to the real world that she is looking for another misfortune to get her out of the reverie.

In criticizing the norms of the genre, is not it romantic? goes beyond them and relies on well-known devices to offer a crazy, wacky, though somewhat erratic hike, which is mostly fun. It takes a bite of all the items that are cracked to be essential to a rom-com and then some – a rich, dirty man to die for, a flamboyant gay friend, a phone number written on flower petals, a pbadionate kiss in the rain, a great wedding and a final elaborate dance issue that sweeps the blues – then throws them into an entertaining mix in which Rebel Wilson delights with the support of actors who play with enthusiasm.

the film is not just about the story of a lonely girl looking for a man to spice up her life. It's more of a girl who is learning to love herself. "I'm complacent," Natalie said at one point. To another, she says, "I love you." She makes sure that "I am smart, kind and funny". This is not the kind of love that surrounds romantic comedies.

Natalie's path is inevitably fraught with obstacles, sometimes expressed in strictly physical terms. In addition to being hit on the head and being almost crushed by a limousine, Natalie does not just stumble repeatedly when she pbades from one compliment to the other in the "silly world" in which she is, she also drives a car.

She tries to get out of the world in which she is trapped, where Josh, with whom she loves and wants to come back, is about to marry Isabella, the model on the billboard just at the door. Outside his office; his best friend Whitney has become a deadly enemy and a sworn competitor; and his grim neighbor, Donny (Brandon Scott Jones) miraculously turns into a naive homobadual man around the city. , Dana Fox and Katie Silberman). It flows at a uniform pace, so do not expect it to amaze you. But with Rebel Wilson hitting the right notes, nowhere more than in the animated duel "I want to dance with someone who likes me" with Priyanka Chopra (that's one of the points strong of the film), is not it romantic? is a satire of well-being.