Note: This film can currently be viewed on Netflix.
Michael's Movie Grade: F
A bland and incredibly cliché Polish romantic comedy.
This movie's storyline is little except for a collection of clichés we have seen in a million romantic comedies before. Truth be told these clichés have also been done a million times better. This is not helped by the fact that this entire film's plot revolves around every character being a complete idiot. The female lead (Adrianna Chlebicka) leads two lives, one as a model and one as a teacher. The difference as a model she wears a wig, no glasses and more revealing clothing. Yet the story centers around no one (except for a third grader (Helena Mazur)) being able to tell the difference between these two even when they spend an extensive amount of time together in both her ways of dressing. If this was carried off in a farcical way it could have worked, but no we are simply supposed to except that nobody would truly recognize any similarities. The character herself has little personality outside of being a good person and therefore never feels real to us. Our male lead (Mateusz Banasiuk) is not much better. While all male leads in a movie like this need to have a bit of a character arc, it should be handled better than this. The arc itself feels incredibly rushed and he seems to have changes in his personality for no reason whatsoever. There is no transition between this personality changes they just kind of occur. Like our female lead this character is equally bland and uninteresting, with the only real difference being that he can be a bit of a jerk at times. Like too many romantic comedies these days, there is often little to no focus on the comedy. This is just as well because its attempts at doing comedy mostly fall flat, though one wishes that this movie could have at least kidded the absurdity of its premise.
This is a bottom of the barrel romantic comedy all the way.
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