Not sure I get it...

This was supposed to be a comedy? A romantic comedy, sure, but a comedy? Without exaggeration, I don't think I laughed once. It wasn't funny. It came off as awkward and sad; and frankly, pathetic. I can understand shyness and fear, and I can understand two people having fear of relationship, but these two characters were just painful to watch. So was the entire film.

Amélie Poulain in Amélie was shy and feared love and a relationship, but she was charming and funny and cute. Angelique in this movie was cute but really kind of sad, and I couldn't quite understand what she was afraid of. Perhaps that's not on her character. I felt for her character, and I wanted to like her and this movie, but I just couldn't. The writing was really all over the place and kind of dumb at times. Maybe it's not fair to compare this movie with Amélie because that film is arguably in a class of its own, but I just wasn't pleased with Romantics Anonymous.

There were so many others things that were wrong with this movie:

-The whole "webcam" scene was the stupidest thing. Why couldn't she just tell her 5 coworkers that she was the "hermit"? Would it have been that bad to tell a few people?

-If Angelique is so shy and afraid of everything, why was she singing and dancing out in public in front of everybody? Was that in her imagination? Was that how she feels on the inside? If so, that's not what was conveyed to me. If it was just in her head, why was everybody looking at her strangely? If it's not in her head, and she's actually doing it - what happened to her fear and shyness, and why does it return for the rest of the film?

-The first date between Angelique and Jean-Rene: That was pathetic. You have to go to the men's room to change your shirt three or four times, and then you jump out of the window and run away from the date? What was to be so afraid of?! You couldn't even have dinner with a lovely lady?

-What about her "hermit" problem? Is she now cured of her fear to let everyone know that she is the Mercier's hermit? That wasn't addressed by the end of the film, and it seemed to be a big part of the story. So, why wasn't that addressed?? Plus, she has no problem telling a group of strangers in an "Emotionals Anonymous"[?] meeting, but she can't tell her coworkers?

-Why was this entire film in French, but there were two random songs in the English language?? They just seemed out of place, especially "Jet Plane" by Angus & Julia Stone. Great song, but at the end credits of a French film? Why?

-The ending wasn't cute. It was stupid. Instead of getting married, they just take off and run down a long, seemingly endless, road to the tune of "Jet Plane"??? Huh?! So, are they getting married or not?

The story seemed to move along too fast, like it was skipping a few steps or something. It all just seemed to be somewhat of a stretch at times, and it had to all be crammed into 80 minutes of run time? All I can say is I'm glad it was that short of a movie because I was waiting for this movie to be over about halfway through.


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