Isn't it romantic

- Isn’t it romantic? (2019, dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson). As a child, Natalie was told that women like her “do not get happy endings”. As an adult, she struggles as an under-appreciated architect in New York. After she’s knocked unconscious during a mugging, Natalie wakes up in the pastel-colored world of feel-good romantic comedies… the kind of movies she despises. She must now figure a way out of this silly pretty (or pretty silly) existence —and perhaps learn a lesson or two on the way…

An entertaining parody of the rom-com / chick flick genre that, as is often the case with mainstream parodies, embraces the same clichés it seeks to spoof. Yet the result is still sufficiently funny, anchored by a good performance from lead Wilson. The director had previously helmed a parody of horror movies in a similar vein, “The final girls”.