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 a charming rom-com with meaningful dramatic moments and likable enjoyable characters worth rooting for another chance at true love.

Is the film successful in converting the stone-hearted into a believer? Not completely. But it does get sufficiently close.

For what it is, a sort of wistful, sad Hallmark romance with pretty leads who have little chemistry, it’s not terrible. Random laughs are scattered throughout.

... To watch this movie is to experience molecular-level embarrassment for all involved parties.