Isn’t it Romantic  ★★

I’VE SAID this before – romantic comedies are definitely not my go-to genre.

So while I’m not amongst the target audience for Isn’t It Romantic, my wife and daughter are and they also barely laughed during the film.

In the annals of romantic comedy, this one should rank pretty low.

It’s a decent idea – a woman cynical of love and romance gets trapped in an alternative universe full of all the tropes, characters and situations she can’t stand only to find true love in the end from the least likely of sources.

I say ‘from the least likely’ but it’s actually absolutely likely from the outset who she will wind up with.

Australia’s Rebel Wilson has to carry the film in the lead role of Natalie and she does a serviceable but uneven job.

She is an accomplished comedian but more suited to supporting film roles. Here the script also lets her down by virtue of the the fact that most of the laughs she has to deliver are either mis-timed, ill-judged or plain poor and, in some cases, all three.

Wilson is also let down by a trio of average to poor performances from a totally unconvincing Liam Hemsworth, Adam Devine , who should never be cast as a romantic interest again, and Priyanka Chopra whose style of delivery and wide-eyed manner suggests she thought she was in a Bollywood musical.

Even rom-com fans will probably be left non-plussed by this one which feels much longer than 90 minutes.