Gary Marshall’s latest rom-com is getting a curious treatment. Critics are either giving it a fair chance or they plain hate it to the point of thinking it will bring about the end of the world. We here at the Swift Agency (only one guy here – hey, how’s it going) can’t help but thinking we’ve seen this kind of treatment before.
Taylor (the curly one) is doing a few scenes in this movie, but more than a few critics are centering so much on her that you might be fooled into thinking she has the starring role. She doesn’t, you blink and you might miss her. She has about four scenes, and short ones are that. Of course I am only going to center on her. Suffice to say, the movie is not about the Fearless One, but if you’re not a fan you might want to rethink going to see it.
There’s some negative reviews out there. It’s very light comedy at best, I don’t expect Oscar-level anything here. Cleveland.com compares it to a bad episode of the Love Boat. I get the reference, but you might want to revise your puns to events a bit more modern than 80’s sitcoms for the younger crowd. OK! Was less nice with a couple of jabs at Swift that you can go and checkout for yourself. Finally others resorted to compiling bad reviews, and adding their own opinion to a movie they haven’t seen which is not even worth a link.
There are positive reviews though. CMT‘s Chris Wilman wrote:
The good news: Swift makes the most of that limited time and is — quite unsurprisingly — a dynamic screen presence whom the camera clearly adores. You might think of her extended cameo as a high-profile, low-pressure screen test for bigger and better roles, and she passes with flying colors.
– Chris Wilman, CMT
I will not spoil it for you but both Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner (not related) seem to take comedy stabs at themselves. You can read the article about it at CMT. If you don’t want any spoilers, I’d suggest skipping it. They’re considered light spoilers, but the appearances are so short that between them and the trailer you’ve seen all the Taylors had to offer.
There’s a less Swift-centered review of the film at the Los Angeles Times. It focuses more on Anne Hathaway who has a larger role in the film.
Note that I haven’t given you my opinion because I haven’t seen it. If I were to say, compile pieces of all the bad reviews – or even worse paste it from another site that did it for me – and then add my own opinion without seeing the movie, I’d lose all credibility if I were, say a movie critic. Not that anybody has done that. Because that would be stupid.
Valentine’s Day movie opens this Friday, February 12.
(Source: CMT, Los Angeles Times, Cleveland.com, OK!)
The Swift Agency 
It’s funny how she’s all they concentrate on, and all they critizise. It’s like they’re testing her, her abilities, and talents, and no matter what she does, they hate it, only because they’re vicious and close minded. No matter what she does, people are going to find something wrong with it. And that’s the price she (and also us) has to pay for becoming a main stream superstar. We’ll just have to deal with it, I guess. Or just concentrate on the positive.