7.2 stars.
My feelings are all over the spectrum just like Miss Martin's personality in this film. Her character is supposedly "neurotic" (according to some reviewers), but she's not. She would be best described as a colorful personality or borderline eccentric. Neurotic is not what many people think and has no similarities to the character portrayed in this story. She is actually more quirky and odd, opinionated, but not forceful. She claims to not eat sweets, but she binge eats them every day. She also claims to be a vegetarian and gluten free, but you will see that she certainly breaks all of those dietary rules in every dining scene. Obviously, what she means to say is that she doesn't want to eat sweets (and meat, and gluten, and...), would like to avoid them, but she can't.
The story is fine, there are ups and downs with the flow. But it's actually a very endearing movie if you can look past the monster-in-law. Oh boy, what a major barrier to a fun and light movie watching experience. It was painful to see her push buttons, but I think that was the intent. The lead male is so-so. I don't know if he's the right person to be lead male in a romance film. I suspect a lack of high ratings may have something to do with his casting.
