sterile comedy and mawkishness

Rating: 3/10 (23 March 2019)

I think I get this movie. It does that wonderful thing that American movies do in telling dramas using characters that feel like they have been snatched from sitcoms.
But I greatly dislike this movie because I hate its characters; he's not a lovable loser, he's just annoying, and she is just kind of stuck up. The movie DEPENDS on you believing in their coincidental romance and rooting for it against the back drop of the worst married couple ever. I can dark some dark stuff, Family Guy does that impeccably. But they make it into a joke, this is just humour with a lot of darkness inserted.
It's not intelligently made, I don't care to see care free people have their lives disrupted by an inconvenient pregnancy, there aren't jokes so much as banter and the attempt to left itself with sentimentality makes me nauseated.
Pick one; be dark or be sentimental. You can juggle brutality and pathos but that takes a lot more skill than this movie has.