2011 · comedy · romance
Just Go with It
Directed by Dennis Dugan1h 57m2011
While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
Our read: Just Go with It (2011) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want easy Hawaii rom-com comfort with Sandler-Aniston chemistry and lies.”
Skip it tonight — Lying-to-impress-her premise and plastic-surgery jokes will grate on you.
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