Love Accidentally

This is a very similar style movie as the shop around the corner, the good old summertime, and you've got mail. ( please eat those instead). But the thing that drove me the most crazy was not the lack of chemistry or their constant signing at EVERYTHING, but the constant voice texting....why, why is the movie voice texts ALL THE TIME like text, and have them narrate the text, not constantly just sending one line text via voice text. It was hard to watch this movie.

This is a light hate to love romantic comedy in which two antagonistic coworkers in an advertising firm start opening up to one another anonymously via text after respective dumpings.

When Alexa gets dumped over lunch, she accidentally drops her work phone in a bucket of water. She gets a replacement when she returns to work, but hadn't backed up her phone to the cloud. So that night when she needs a friend...she texts her best friend, or so she thinks. She ends up flipping the last two numbers and unbeknownst to her ends up getting her arch nemesis at work Jason. She and Jason are competing for the same account at work and with it the same promotion. As it turns out Jason is also dumped on the same day and the two agree to text anonymously...striking up a friendship.

Not the worst Rom-Com, but not the best. Think something like a Hallmark film with a slightly better set. I think romantics will enjoy the film if they manage their expectations.

Or the other way around - no pun intended for sure though. The movie can be seen as cringe I reckon. The sweetness factor is way too big to say the least. And yet I liked the movie somehow. Maybe I am a glutton for punishment. But the two main actors are really good and they do their best.

Of course you have to suspend your disbelief. The fact that both have this ... well accident as the title suggests ... and that the mystery holds up for so long ... well that is quite something. Also that they both get dumped at the same time. It is women empowering for sure - it is aimed at a female audience so it makes quite a lot of sense. Know what you get yourself into ... make an informed decision (unlike the characters here)

This was not a good movie, not a good chick flick either. But, it is bearable for those who enjoy this type of low budget, bad acting, romance movie. Simple premise and very predictable. Very mid.

I mostly watched this because I used to watch Brenda Song on Disney Channel when I was a child & was wondering what she was up to. Unfortunately I've found out she's still making Disney Channel level films but now for adults.

Love Accidentally is nothing more than a copy paste of your typical mid-2000s Hallmark Movie. They didn't even bother to modernize the plot-line, using tropes of the time that no longer make sense (ex: her 2022 waterproof iPhone dying because it was in a bucket of ice for 10 seconds, her contacts not syncing to the cloud automatically, her friend getting mad that she didn't know her phone number). Of course the characters and main plot-line make even less sense, with people in their mid-30s getting into Disney Channel levels of high-school drama & a company having two salesmen self-destructively compete for the same client.

In addition, whoever filmed this movie made almost no attempt at even basic quality control. Just one example -- every time a character holds or "drinks" a cup of "coffee" it's so blindly obvious the cup is actually empty that it will take you out of the movie immediately. There are more egregious issues as well (ie: the awkward "Him and Her" nickname that was clearly the original working title of the movie & should have been changed when they changed the title) but many of those have already been highlighted in other reviews.

Even at only 85 minutes this lazy, completely telegraphed movie is a slog to get through.