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Review | Marry Me movie review: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson take inspiration from Notting Hill in formulaic fairy-tale romance

  • Jennifer Lopez is a star and Owen Wilson an everyman who hook up in Marry Me, which tries to capture the spirit of Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in Notting Hill
  • In that it fails. Although mildly amusing, the pairs’ tribulations are numbingly predictable. The soundtrack is memorable, but not enough to save the movie

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Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson star in Marry Me, a disappointing romantic comedy inspired by Notting Hill.

2.5/5 stars

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Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson head up Marry Me, an ineffective romantic comedy that tries to recapture the spirit of the Richard Curtis-scripted Notting Hill, which asked whether a famous actress could date a civilian.

In Marry Me, Wilson takes the everyman role. He plays Charlie, a single-parent maths teacher who gets dragged along by his friend (Sarah Silverman) to a concert by Kat Valdez (Jennifer Lopez), a megastar singer who is set to wed her musician boyfriend Bastian (Colombian singer-songwriter Maluma) on stage.

With the glamorous couple also set to perform their latest single, Marry Me, it looks to be a match made in PR heaven – but moments before their nuptials, Valdez sees a video that’s about to go viral of Bastian cheating on her with her assistant.

Dazed, she goes out on stage and spies Charlie, who is holding a “Marry Me” sign given to him by his daughter. In a moment of madness, she takes him up on the offer.

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“Nothing else has worked,” she shrugs. “Maybe this will.” Up on stage, she marries a rather stunned Charlie there and then.

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