I Want You Back

POSITIVES

  • Opening montage scene perfectly shows you the kind of silly entertainment that you're going to have while watching this movie.

  • Jenny Slate and Charlie Day. Very funny people on their own, but also their chemistry together is fantastic. Kudos as well to Manny Jacinto for being quite the scene stealer.  

  • If there’s one factor that you can rely on to keep you amused, it’s the funny lines and punchlines that this movie is filled with.  

  • Enjoyable set pieces, from the Little Shop of Horrors, to the after club get together, gives you those situational comedies that this movie’s premise can bring. 

  • There are some subplots and character back stories that I found genuinely endearing. 

NEGATIVES

  • Can’t be helped, there are some predictable and familiar elements.  

  • On occasion, the movie does slow down to a crawl when it has to show some emotional moments. 

  • A couple of the characters unfortunately felt a little underwritten. 

  • Probably goes on longer than it had to. 

  • Can movies stop using the old tired plot trope of the lead characters having a discussion while watching a movie in a theater, while there are other audience members present?!!! Just write them watching a movie at home or at their apartment or something! Pet peeve of mine. 

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