The ending was predictable but still worked. I liked the way the handled several incidents including the inevitable conflict.
#PERFECT HARMONY HALLMARK 2022 MOVIE#
As the movie goes on, it appears it was just what happened 10 years ago. It seems it was only one bad meeting even though Naomi and Simon confronted them at first made it seem like the rift was deeper. I would have liked more of what was bad about their history.
I wouldn't say she could make a career of just singing, but she sounded good here and the two together worked well. I never thought of James Denton as a singer, but he's not bad. We've seen stories about washed up rock stars. We've seen plenty of movies where a best man and maid of honor have some bad history but have to work together. While there are echoes of plotlines from many other movies, somehow this feels totally different. The notion that two people can come together and perform a song for the first time together, without any rehearsal or preparation (either together or individually) without, at least, a teleprompter is, well, ridiculous (but those performances were still lovely). Taking someone's private notebook without their permission is NOT cool. Why did it take their best friends 10 years to get married? Why did they suddenly need to move the wedding up to "next month"? Playing a music video with the volume on in a restaurant is NOT cool. And I liked this exchange: Barrett: "It seems like every week I read some article about some woman who lived to be 105 years old and when the reporter asks her what's her secret, you know what she always says? 'Stay away from men'"īarrett: "I'm trying to calculate how many years you're going to take off my life." But. I loved all the hand touching and hand holding as the attraction between Jack and Barrett grew. And yet this partially overheard conversation was handled in a completely different and very satisfying way. I assumed he would tell his father what he heard, and then his father would be upset, reject Barrett, and then they would reunite once the misunderstanding was cleared up. But there was a scene where he overheard part of a conversation with Barrett which I assumed would be played out like that trope is usually handled in a Hallmark movie. And I wasn't clear on why a college student was living at home with his father rather than in a dorm or in a house with other students. I was annoyed at first by Jack's son (played by Denton's real life son) who seemed inexplicably sullen. The music here wasn't hit worthy, but it wasn't horrible either, and it worked within the story. Crappy music can sometimes sink movies like this, especially when one or both of the characters are presented as Big Stars. And the writer, Alicia Lomas-Gross, and the director, Stefan Scaini, added 2 effective Rashomon-like scenes that depicted 2 very different recollections of how they first me (yes, I did just throw in a reference to a classic Akira Kurosawa movie in my review of a Hallmark movie). We are given very satisfying explanations for Jack and Barrett's initial behavior towards each other.
The "enemies to lovers" trope is probably the most popular rom-com formula, but sometimes the initial antagonism seems forced. I would come to a scene where I would become skeptical and ask questions like: "why don't they say this?" or "why don't they do that?" and then a few minutes later the movie would answer my question. I liked the way in which their relationship grew as they spent more time together, had some meaningful conversations, and learned a lot about each other. Sherri Saum (who played Barrett) and James Denton (who played Jack) do a really nice job of portraying two people who begin to see each other in a new light after being forced together in a common Hallmark set up (a Best Man and Maid of Honor who don't get along but need to work together).
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