Netflix has been keeping the idea of the romantic comedy alive for the last few years. The streaming network has made countless couples fall in love and yet when one stands out as new and different, it feels like something special. And that’s kind of the deal with The Wrong Paris.
The Miranda Cosgrove and Pierson Fode movie puts Dawn (Cosgrove) on a game show to try to “win love” so she can go to Paris for art school. The catch is that the show in question is playing a mean trick on its contestants this season. With a twist on Paris, the show takes hopeful romantics to Paris, Texas instead of Paris, France. Meaning Dawn’s plan of getting kicked off the show and getting her appearance fee goes haywire.
While the movie is absolutely outlandish, it is a beautiful addition to the rom-com genre because it is new and different. Dawn doesn’t actually want to fall in love on this show but does so because she’s trying to make money. The catch: She actually ends up liking Trey (Fode). There are a lot of outrageous things in this movie, like the one girl whose entire character arc is that she really wants to have a baby right now. But it is still a lot of fun.
That’s kind of what I think we’re missing in romantic comedies now. We’re either putting the entire success of the genre onto one movie or we’re making movies so outlandish that people say that they’re the reason the genre is failing. But movies like The Wrong Paris attempts something new and makes the journey fun too.
Yes, it is that cheesy kind of rom-com that is almost tooth-rottingly sweet but sometimes, you just need that level of cheesy in your life.
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