Peacock's new KaleyCuoco and Pete Davidson-led sci-fi rom-com, MeetCute, fails to live up to its own potential.
Meet Cute wants to be a lot of things at once. The film, which premieres exclusively on Peacock this week, is simultaneously a manic time travel adventure, playful romantic comedy, and dead-serious commentary on the messiness of romantic relationships. If that sounds like a lot for one low-budget rom-com to juggle — and within the span of 89 minutes, no less — that’s because it is.
Meet Cute’s inability to add anything of real worth to the romantic comedy genre is made more disappointing by how promisingly it starts. The film brings a refreshing, Groundhog Day-esque twist to its otherwise straightforward rom-com plot, and despite opening with a purposefully clichéd bar encounter between the movie’s two leads, Sheila and Gary , Meet Cute wisely doesn’t waste too much time before throwing the necessary wrench into its own story.
Her confession to Gary is one of many moments in which Meet Cute uses Sheila’s tendency to overshare and throw caution to the wind to speed through its necessary pieces of exposition, but Cuoco, to her credit, takes full advantage of her character’s high-strung energy by chewing through every line she’s given.
That’s a shame, considering the scene in question had the potential to be one of the few genuine surprises in a film that takes a more predictable journey than its time travel premise would have you believe. It’s not long, for instance, before Meet Cute forces Sheila to tell Gary about how her own fear of disappointment has prevented her from truly exploring a relationship with him, and the arguments that ensue following that admission feel suffocatingly overwritten.
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