Merv

C'mon already and get back together.

At an hour and 45 minutes, give or take, it's taking an extraordinarily long time for Zooey and Charlie to get back together and by the end, even the dimmest of all watchers know what's about to happen. Typical romance comedy stuff with just one thing that makes the film stand out: pups.

There's a ton of doggies and pup-related stuff in this film. Maybe a little over the top on the dogs, but I must say if you don't like this movie because of the doggies, or just don't like animals in general, that's just wrong... to say the least. Is it woke for telling the viewers to flat-out adopt a pet from the shelter? If so, that makes me a woke liberal.

Fun movie. About 30 minutes too long.

What a surprisingly funny little movie. While it does take place around Christmas I would not call this a Christmas movie. Good acting and the jokes mostly land. There are a few cringe comedy moments and sometimes the Russ character can be a bit too over emotional but I think that's more the type of movie than a woke element. It gets a little sappy and corny in a couple of places but nothing too bad. I do think you need to be a dog person to really get all the jokes out of this movie, or at lease an animal person in general. The comedy is mostly clean and family friendly with a few little innuendo jokes that will most likely go over little kids heads. If you have watched any rom-coms at all then the story is the usual by the numbers cliché and you know what's going to happen anyway but that's kind of the point of these right? The only thing that might be considered woke is that her friend is black, his friend/co worker is black and their vet is black, this seems unlikely however it is set in Boston which has a higher than average black population. There's also the fact that none of their acting is bad and the characters didn't seem forced and race is never brought up or made an issue. I just can't see giving it a woke point over that.