A fat single female architect has problems finding a man. She hates romcoms with unrealistic happy endings. At her NYC office she's treated disrespectful by all but her two friends. She instantly falls for the new handsome customer. She hits her head during a mugging and wakes up as the main character in a romcom where men find her cute. The handsome customer falls for her.... (Full plot summary below)
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A fat single female architect has problems finding a man. She hates romcoms with unrealistic happy endings. At her NYC office she's treated disrespectful by all but her two friends. She instantly falls for the new handsome customer. She hits her head during a mugging and wakes up as the main character in a romcom where men find her cute. The handsome customer falls for her.
Leave your thoughts about Isn't It Romantic.
| New York PostJohnny OleksinskiThe movie is hysterical, and at just under 90 minutes, the gag never wears thin. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekIt’s ridiculous, and it’s wonderful. Falling in love is stupid like that. |
| Entertainment WeeklyDana SchwartzIsn’t It Romantic pulls off a sweet sleight-of-hand trick as a rom-com-within-a-rom-com, mocking all of the classic rom-com tropes while still letting us indulge in them. The movie is having its gourmet cupcake and eating it too. |
| IndieWireKate ErblandEvery trope, twist, and trick of the genre is up for skewering in the comedy, but the film keeps things light and smart, never dipping into darkness or crass jokes. It’s funny because it’s clever, but it’s also never cruel. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshIsn’t It Romantic walks the line between subversive and sendup. It gleefully makes fun of the well-known tropes of romantic comedies, while also satisfying our desire to delight in said tropes. |
| The Associated PressLindsey BahrIsn’t It Romantic stays pretty surface level, which makes for a fine and pleasurable viewing experience, but doesn’t exactly do anything to show that rom-coms would be better if the best friends had more of an inner life, for example. In fact, it just kind of redeems the formula in some ways. |
| TheWrapApril WolfeThe best gag comes from rom-com world’s cloying PG-13-ness. |
| Washington PostJane HorwitzA visually and verbally ingenious sendup of romantic comedies that wears its candy heart on its sleeve. |
| The PlaylistKimber MyersIt pokes fun at falling in love on screen, but it’s smart and sweet enough make us fall for it as well. |
| Original-CinKim HughesWilson is beautiful but far from typical Hollywood beautiful which underscores the film’s wink-nudge absurdity. She’s also funny as hell, delivering deadpan with Aussie-approved aplomb. |
