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I Give It A Year film review

  • Emma Taplin
  • Feb 12, 2013
  • 2 min read

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The impossible has happened. For years Working Title has been my fail safe production company. I don’t think there has been a single film I have seen by them that I have not loved or at least appreciated…until now.

Released on 8th February, I Give It A Year is the latest film hoping to be added to our list of ‘all time favourite romcoms.’

Sadly, I can’t see this being the case. From the off the film is predictable and boring with even the jokes becoming boring and tedious. The usually funny Stephen Merchant even struggles to boost the film’s decent joke count. It seems as though he is too busy worrying about cramming as many one liners in as possible no matter what effect it has on the movie. When Merchant isn’t trying to slam a glaringly obviously joke right in the middle of every scene then you can rely on Minnie Driver to take over with her constant digs at the not-so-happy-couple the movie is centred around.

Don’t even get me started on Rose Byrne’s performance as Nat… To be fair, there are some redeeming features to be found in the midst of everything. Tim Key and Olivia Colman offer glimmers of hope for British actors with their brief, if slightly over the top appearances dotted through the film.

If comedy dance routines are your thing then the one performed by Rafe Spall and Stephen Merchant at the beginning isn’t terrible as far as cringe worthy, 80’s reject dances go. I think to best summarise this film I have to look upon Film 2013’s Danny Leigh who said it suffers from an “Identity crisis because half this film wants to be anti-romcom which does vile, unspeakable things to the memory of Love Actually and I think half the movie wants to be Love Actually.”


 
 
 

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