Love Again

It’s got a Hallmark-level plot, and in other hands, perhaps the movie could be a little charming.

It is of course Dion’s overwhelming voice and music that flood your heart, not this flimsy and occasionally morbid story.

This putative romantic comedy is so bland that it’s already dribbling away from my memory.

It’s not much to examine at length, much less remember, but if you’re in the mood for a Hallmark card to revive your faith in gooey rom-coms, Love Again is not the one.

You can probably guess the next series of developments, and let’s just say those guesses wouldn’t be far off. Love Again plays out like some ungainly melding of You’ve Got Mail and the Gwyneth Paltrow-Ben Affleck plane crash movie Bounce...

Most of the laugh lines in Love Again are stale enough that even just hearing them kind of hurts your teeth, but for all of its blatant ridiculousness, this movie seldom tries to be funny.

Love Again is not even on the cusp of being a memorable romantic-comedy, especially because it apparently forgot that a prerequisite of the genre is to provide laughs.

Has a certain amount of charm but the needed chemistry between Jonas and Heughen just isn't there.

Love Again starts out with an uncomfortable premise, and things get worse from there. Even those who ironically enjoy Hallmark TV romances might have difficulty with a movie that can’t seem to hit the right notes.

Fluffy, cheesy and nary a sense of ingenuity, Love Again can be seen as a throwback to the plentiful rom-coms of yore. Or as a laughable pastiche with sugar levels so high, it will make your teeth rot. Let the power ballad of the Queen guide you.