Marry Me: do you take the J-Lo/Owen Wilson romcom to be the weirdest film of 2022?

Jennifer Lopez proposes to Owen Wilson, a maths teacher she's never met. What was she thinking? How will it end? And does anyone care?

Nobody really wants it to be 2021, do they? A vicious global pandemic is about to enter its third year, the world is on fire and populist politics threatens to overturn democracy as we know it. Some people have reacted to these terrible times by trying to change things. Others are willing themselves back to a more innocent era.

By others", I mean Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, who are doing their level best to make it 2005 again. How? By making a romcom, that's how. If this was a decade and a half ago, then Marry Me would automatically be one of the biggest hits of the year, bringing together the unstoppable forces responsible for Maid in Manhattan and Wedding Crashers. But it isn't 2005, it's 2021, and the thought of watching Lopez and Wilson shuffle through a romcom together is baffling. Perhaps it'd help to go through the Marry Me trailer beat by beat.