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We all know Rebel Wilson and Adam Devine from their famous singing and dance moves in Pitch Perfect. We also all know Liam Hemsworth from his debut heartfelt, love story The Last Song starring Miley Cyrus. We know Priyanka Chopra from her remarkable acting in Baywatch and The Jungle Book. In this romantic and anti-romantic comedy titled Isn’t It Romantic starring these very talented people, all the characters try to find love in a close-to-impeccable world. After Wilson gets mugged at the subway, hits her head on a pole and wakes up in an oddly dazzling emergency room with a dashing young doctor by her side, she wakes up to a world where everyone is living accomplished lives and seeking endless love.
While Isn’t It Romantic had a wide range of very talented actors and actresses, it also had numerous absurd moments, entertaining music numbers and a heartwarming life lesson that we all needed to hear especially around Valentine’s Day. The beginning of the movie started with showing Wilson as a young girl watching a love story where she learns that she wants to find love herself when she is older. Her mother tells her that she will not find love due to the fact that she is “no Julia Roberts.”
One of my favourite scenes from the movie was when Wilson and Hemsworth were in a hallway and Wilson ripped open Hemsworth’s button down shirt and continued to kiss him passionately. These two love birds were having an intimate and passionate moment where, of course, Wilson had to make the audience laugh hysterically by dramatically ripping open his shirt.
I also really enjoyed the scene where Wilson made an entertaining decision influenced by five shots of tequila chugged down all at once. Wilson decided to step up to the karaoke stage and serenade Devine by singing and dancing to “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” She was not only hoping that Devine would fall for her but she fell for him…literally. In the middle of dancing enthusiastically and singing charismatically, Wilson took a tumble down to the floor where she ended up falling on her face. While Wilson was trying to make Devine fall for her, it ended up occurring the other way around—and not necessarily working in Wilson’s favor.
To end it all off, there was a captivating dance number which consisted of all the cast members singing and dancing outside on a street together.
The life lesson that we learn from Isn’t It Romantic is that Wilson realized that she was trying to find someone to love her, but in the end, she is the one that needs to find love in herself. She also realized that she enjoyed her own normal, bland, average and not-so-fabulous life. She did not need to be rich, she did not need a wealthy man in her life, she did not need to have an expensive home and she did not need to have expensive material possessions to have a successful life. All she needed in the end was self-love, and acceptance of herself because you need to love yourself first and be content with your own life. I really enjoyed this movie due to the fact that the lesson we learned from it is that no matter what happens in life we need to love ourselves first. Wilson played a very important character in the movie that really reinforced this lesson to the audience. Wilson made me laugh hysterically and enjoy a good movie while taking a break from my studies.
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