Culture|Movie review
In a bad comedy, the suspense is whether the main characters have sex with each other.
Comedy
Beautiful Disaster, directed by Roger Kumble. 96 min. K12. ★
Comedy Beautiful Disaster must have been a good idea according to the financiers. There is a ready-made fan base for the film, as it is based on an American Jamie McGuire to the bestselling novel of the same name (2011).
The director also has his share of hits on the hit front. Roger Kumble already made money with his first child Cruel intentions (1999), and also his previous teen drama After We Collided (2020) made a result.
The main actors have been added to the equation, who are familiar with, among other things, the aforementioned After We Collided from the movie (Dylan Sprouse) and from the teen series Runaways (Virginia Gardner). The teen hits of the past years are also represented, because of the side years Brian Austin Green and Rob Estes remembered from the TV series Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place.
It looks like they have a potentially winning team. However, in terms of content, the balance of the comedy approaches zero.
You can do the same say about the chemistry of the main couple. Abby Abernathy (Gardner) is a former poker prodigy who leaves Las Vegas and her troubled father to start college. On the first night at his place of study, he ends up watching an illegal wrestling match.
The star of the match, Travis Maddox (Sprouse), flirts while beating his opponent. At the end of the night, Abby, who follows the match in the front row, has blood on the chest of her sweater and material for wet dreams.
Beautiful Disaster tells a familiar story about the charm of opposites. However, Travis doesn’t seem like the opposite to Abby as much as to the whole post-#meto era. A young man scolds a woman for having too big a neck opening and brags about it to her companion. Well, on the other hand, the time after #metoo has also been productive Andrew Tate like a social media character inciting misogyny.
When the main characters has been made to row and feel in the same direction – the film is more than halfway through a listless loop of “likes, doesn’t like” – in the rest of the plot, the remnants of the plot are dragged out. Follow the gangsters, gambling, more turd attraction and an incomprehensible sex scene that reminds the heroes of the Arctic Circle – parody.
If the marketing people of the US book industry are to be believed, the story represents the new adult genre that was considered hot a decade ago. In the publishing industry, it refers to non-fiction aimed at an audience slightly older than youth, with characters in their twenties.
Lightness or young adulthood, however, it’s pointless to use it as a weapon for the film. The same vague frames fit Tiktok, for example, and there are plenty of funnier, deeper and more exciting works than Beautiful Disaster.
Screenplay by Roger Kumble. Produced by Mark Clayman, Jonathan Deckter, Roger Kumble, Brian Pitt. Starring Dylan Sprouse, Virginia Gardner, Autumn Reeser, Austin North.
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