40-Love

Great story with beautiful shots on the road and in the city. It's nice to see really talented actors in the lead roles that are new to the big screen. Supporting roles were very good. Plenty of laughs as well as heartfelt moments. Seeing this movie in the theater was a pleasure. I'll see it more than once.

I rode the wave of the writing and acting but this crashes way too many times. I looked for the happy ending, but again the writing, acting and direction falls flat. The only brightness in the film is the tennis play. Very well done. The male announcer is beyond ridiculous! I suggest you spend the 90 minutes you'd waste on this, and call a friend or loved one.

Not one genuine, believable moment of dialogue. It's as if 25 writers wrote each scene independently and then just spliced them all together hoping they would somehow make a film. One of the most disjointed movies I've ever seen. In addition to truly bizarre plot points for the main characters, there are random, rude filler characters throughout that say and do nasty things and have no connection to the actual plot. You keep watching hoping it will all finally make sense. It never does. There's nothing the actors could do to make a bad script better. Don't waste precious hours of your life watching this film.

If the studio hired a good screenwriter, and asked that person to write five or six witty scenes, and the scenes were well acted, and then the studio hired the worst screenwriter ever to finish the plot ... the studio would end up with this movie.

And the tennis is awful, the players don't move or hit like professionals at all. When the opponent gets beat, falls and rolls into the net ... its like being at the circus.

Some of the atmospherics around the tennis are realistic. And the male tennis announcer is like the guy from Best in Show, except that otherwise this movie is not trying for Best in Show humor.

And the "special effects" were done by someone with a TRS-80 and about a half hour of budget, and bear no resemblance to anything.

I'll give the actors credit though, they were not the problem. But they were also not the solution.

Tennis players will watch this and immediately realize it wasn't written by a tennis player. Consult with some pros and use the real terms! Moonshot, upstroke, left, and right are not words ever spoken on a tennis court lolol. Even non-players know how silly this writing was. Also, the tennis world is super generous so it wouldn't have been tough to get some cameos.

Forced Irish jokes that fall flat and some art direction issues- like where is their gear/racquet bags etc??

It's not horrible otherwise! Solid 5.5 rounded to 6.