Colleen Hoover’s latest adaptation Regretting You may not be as much talked about as the previous adaptation, It Ends With Us. Now, obviously, It Ends With Us is “talked” about for all the wrong reasons and the controversies and the pending lawsuits.
Regretting You has an undeniable charm, but that is because of the actors more than the stories. Having never read Hoover’s works, I was charmed when I saw the trailer and couldn’t wait to see it.
I like Allison Williams, McKenna Grace, and Mason Thames. I am on the fence about Dave Franco, who was admittedly tolerable in Together.
In Regretting You, Dave Franco appears to be in pain as he tries to act out intense emotional scenes. It’s like he knows his role is going to be chopped up and decides to give minimal effort because he signed on the dotted line.
Could anyone else have done his role better? Of course.
Allison Williams is great in everything, so to see her being paired with Dave Franco, who is regretting being in this film, was an uncomfortable watch.
Here she is, giving her all, and there he is, wincing at the dialogue he has to utter.
Nevertheless, the movie belongs to Clara (played by McKenna Grace) and Miller (played by Mason Thames), who play the cutesy high school couple.
Regretting You is a movie that caters to your fantasies. It’s a perfect world where there is limited drama, close family connections, money pouring out from just anywhere, and big houses.
It’s the kind of movie that creates an illusion and offers false hope.
Your father died in a car crash? That’s alright, you’ll be able to move on in a few hours.
Your aunt also died? The one with whom you had the best friend relationship? You don’t even have to think about her anymore.
Remember the baby? Probably not because during the movie, even the “father” doesn’t remember him. There’s one courtesy dialogue asking about his whereabouts, which is quickly dismissed with a hasty reply: he’s with his grandma.
Okay, then, why did Jonah not drop the baby off with her in the first place instead of dumping it at Morgan’s while he sorted out his feelings? And it is never really confirmed that the baby is indeed Chris’s and not Jonah’s. I mean, just saying he “smiles like Chris” justifies paternal identity?
The problem with Regretting You is that the editing isn’t as seamless as it should have been. There are flashes of scene,s and because of that, we don’t get a sense of watching a character develop and evolve.
What we see is a whole lot of conveniences.
Morgan immediately gets Chris’s house and remodels it in a week. We never see her working, so we have to assume she’s getting by on investment earnings.
No one notices or cares that a teenage boy is moving a city limits sign. And his grandfather is the most supportive guy you’ve ever seen. The ending just jumps the shark.
Throughout the movie, the grandfather keeps talking about Miller inheriting his air, and it turns out it has something to do with the air being rented out and so on.
To cut it short, grandpa has half a million that he is more than willing to share with his grandson, who can attend film school guilt-free.
There, see? Everything just works out quickly for everybody.
But when the movie ends, you can’t help but feel bad for Morgan. Her story was perhaps the most interesting of the lot. She was betrayed by both her husband and sister, and now has to move on from that.
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