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Topics: Netflix, Brooke Shields, Film and TV
Michael Slavin
There’s undeniably a formula to a good romcom.
Whether it be the run to the airport, the moment they realise they feel the same way, the misunderstandings and miscommunications, there are common (often great) moments in so many rom-coms.
But Netflix’s newest number one film is being accused of doing a bit more than following a formula.
Both critics and fans alike have had the same complaint: they smell AI all over the script. Check out the trailer here and see what you think:
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The film is Mother of the Bride, and the synopsis sounds… interesting.
The basic idea is that after travelling to her daughter’s destination wedding, a mother finds out that the dad of her soon-to-be son-in-law is the man who broke her heart – her college ex.
Beyond the creepy connotations of that and the potential of them getting back together and making their kids step-siblings, most people just simply are not impressed by the script.
One fan posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) to say that not only did they think it was terrible, they thought it had been spat out by a machine.
They said: “Mother of the Bride on Netflix is actually so bad and not even the good kind of bad.
“It’s giving AI script overloaded with social media references and pickleball. It’s complete brain mush and it’s exactly what I needed today”.
Not quite the conclusion to that stream of thought that I was expecting, but sometimes all we need is a terrible movie.
This was not the only person online to come to this conclusion either, as one reddit thread on r/netflix had commenters saying the same thing.
One said that ‘this movie had to be written by AI, it's so bad’, with another adding: “I came here to comment that - I’m 30 minutes in and this movie absolutely feels like it was written by an AI trained on the scripts of every romcom ever written.
“There is not an actual joke or funny situation anywhere in it. Just awful.”
Amongst the terrible reviews of the film's 15% on Rotten Tomatoes was one by The A.V. Club, which came to the same conclusion.
They said it’s as if the film is ‘fuelled by an algorithm that’s inserting scenes that borrow from the much funnier flicks it will now sit alongside in Netflix’s many-themed rows of content’.
Whether it be the destination wedding part of Anyone But You, the couple getting back together at a wedding element of Ticket to Paradise, or just a plain great romcom about an middle aged couple rekindling their love like Stuck in Love trust us – just go watch those instead.
UNILAD has contacted Netflix for comment.