Same here!! The entire movie felt like a first draft that was written by someone insufferable, but that moment and the Cher part (aka whenever Zac goes full himbo) were genuinely funny. If it had leaned harder satirical and just been about these two ridiculous characters bouncing off each other, maybe cutting the mom thing entirely, that would have been a much more enjoyable movie
I was also wondering about Kidmans hair, and in another video drag queens Trixie and Katya immediately clocked it as a (bad) wig. And I trust those ladies to know their wigs. So maybe that's why it looks so weird?
Poor Zara, instead of going the easy way of film-school, unpaid internship, shitty low-pay job, shitty paying-a-little-more job, work place politics, industry politics, another shitty not-paying-enough job and at least one sexual harassment incident in order to become a producer, she had to go the hard way of nepotism and wait two whole years. The struggle is real......
My favorite part of this film was watching Trixie and Katya realize in real time the couple's reconciliation scene took place in their local Gelsons. And the pride they felt at that. Other than that I'm just glad Joey King keeps getting those Netflix checks.
@@miskatonic6210 What a wildly insane comment! I feel that deserves an equally weird answer so my response is "I cook frozen pizzas and immediately put them in the fridge so I can have cold pizza which I think is superior to hot pizza" Hope that answers your question
Something deeply unsettling about the amount of (bad) work done on both Efron and Kidman. They look the same age. The look like AI versions of themselves. It's trippy.
I thought the "better love story than Twilight" memes died out with the Dicaprio Oscar memes because Netflix and Wattpad keep churning out crap like this.
Wattpad doesn't 'churn out' anything, it's not a production company. It is simply a site for people to share their stories and it is perfectly fine for that. The trouble starts when someone gets the idea that if a story is "Wattpad-famous", then it is worth publishing. Which is almost never the case.
Honestly "they did get burned getting too close to an underground nuclear fusion plant" is pretty good as far as Hollywood action movie mythological allusions go.
Just find it funny that, after years of Hollywood devaluing actresses over a certain age, they're now having a moment in the worst way possible with all these milf movies.
At least its something. Maybe if we dont bash it too much they will realize that older women are interesting humans too and put them in more different movies?
@@lexa2310I'm all for older women having much more prominent roles. Just not if they've been overly dunked in freaky plastic surgery, a la Bride of Wildenstein, who seems to be increasingly the look Kidman is going for: warped drag queen chic.
I can't really watch movies with Nicole Kidman anymore. She can't move her face, which is really quite important for an actor. It made The Northman so awkward when she looked straight out of a botox clinic in the seventh century. And Zac Efron looks just as bad.
The thing about her that makes me crazy is how terrible her American accent is even after all these years playing mostly American characters it’s just awful lol
@@MilesToGoGo when she was in Big Little Lies I thought her character was Australian because her accent was so bad lmao, and I'm australian so it's not like I'm the best at spotting a bad american accent but god
@@yeet-lj3dr yes omg in Big Little Lies it was the worst!! 😅 I know accents are hard but you’d think at this point in her career with the resources she has it would be so much better
The Movie was SO bad but the "Do you believe in Life after Love" - 'I'm trying Cher!!' had me in Tears laughing and I now quote this on a semi-regular Basis.
This movie was clearly made by people who are deep in the industry and know how to mock it well, but they don't even realize how normalized it is to be a nepo baby or just flat out rich so that's just there. In the background. Like an elephant they can't see
Movies that I have no interest in watching - and have flooded media enough that I *know* I don’t want to watch them - make the perfect Amanda the Jedi fodder.
If this was a Reddit post I’d say Everyone is an asshole here. The mom deserves to be happy but dating her daughter’s boss is over the line. The main character is an asshole for ignoring the feelings of her friends. Zach Efrons character is an asshole for the way he treats the main character. The dead dad is an asshole for wanting a divorce after his wife’s success. The only redeemable character is the grandmother. Also no one communicates in this movie, again with the exception of the grandmother who tells it like it is.
The thing is, we never see Zara ignoring her friends. I don't know if I missed anything, but I watched this movie without seeing a signal red flag from Zara. It was just never seen that she actively ignored her friends, it just seems they hid it from her very well and are mad at that the result of hiding it well. I just felt like this whole movie was about Zara essentially being manipulated into accepting her boss dating her mom
@@CleverUsername69420 Yeah, the whole movie, they treat Zara like this ungrateful kid who takes her mom for granted, but she doesn't act like that. She was right the whole time but was treated like a brat. I literally thought,"Oh my gosh, is this whole movie gonna be about forcing Zara to accept this relationship?" I'm not surprised just disappointed to be right
Kathy Bates got paid $150K and Nicole got $10 Million... Thats crazy! Also, Joey King got $650K, sorry but Kathy should get more money than that, she is worth more money than that.
I think she plays a secondary role in the Sabrina Carpenter terrible Netflix movie and she also got her own terrible TH-cam Red show back when that was a thing
A few of the jokes in the clips Amanda showed were pretty good, “THESE ARE ONE OF A KIND! I have two” got me too. It’s a real shame that it’s missing more of that.
The most unbeliavable thing about this movie, is that Zac Efron goes for the mom instead of his young assistant. We all know that if this was real life, the boss would be trying to date Joey King.
Honestly I don't think I've watched anything Kidmen has been in, in years. Draining the life of a scene is a good description. Thank you for taking the hit in this one.
Tbh the whole 'man's wife is more successful than him in the workplace and he is more than willing to ditch her over that alone' is depressingly realistic. Men's egos are like peaches. Rotten ones at that, cause at least a good peach is still delicious, even bruised.
I hate that people blame children for being difficult or being unable to communicate. Kid was _SEVEN!_ She didn't have a nefarious plan to ruin the trip to France for her mom. She was clearly in distress and either could not articulate or wasn't having her needs met.
And sometimes a temper tantrum is just a temper tantrum especially by the age of 7! She was NOT a toddler! A 7 year old can tell you exactly what they need. There was zero need for her to scream and insist on being carried up the Eiffel Tower! I couldn't do that carrying a 7 year old. It's quite a climb. That kind of thinking is why this world is full of so many spoiled brats!
Some of us are so lucky to have adults in our lives too teach us these things. Be happy you had at least halfway decent parentsand rule models. Monkey see monkey do is a saying for a reason sweetheart.
@@marniekilbourne608 The kid didn't ask to go to France. Her parents went and so she's dragged along for the ride. They want to be all romantic up on the Eiffel Tower, and shockingly enough their kid isn't thrilled about the hike up, because it is indeed 'quite a climb'. It's not like the kid begged to go to Disneyland only to act like an entitled brat when there. The parents wanted a romantic trip in Paris, and their kid inconvenienced them. And god forbid if the kid was neurodivergent, which would pretty much guarantee 'tantrums' like this--but no, it's just spoiled brats, something something bring back the belt because back in my day something.
@@mygoldenwitch The gag being that people complaining about literal children acting like "spoiled brats" 100% grew up to be spoiled, entitled adults who can't stand a second of inconvenience. At least children have the excuse of being kids. You have a whole lifetime of experience and STILL choose to act like this? 😂
THANK YOU !!! also, wtf, a child acting like a child is not the same thing as a boss mistreating their employee. why is the movie trying to tell me they’re on the same level????
Kidman's hair (or wig- I don't care) looked like someone bleached it and forgot the toner...but even more distracting was her and Efron's face. What in the Frankenstein's plastic surgery happened? It was almost "uncanny valley" looking at them. No hate to botox or filler- whatever makes you feel good, but if you're an actor and it hinders your face from...you know, acting. It's maybe not the best idea? 😬This movie wasn't funny, all I felt was secondhand embarrassment and cringe. 🙈
@bigbearkat2010 you can be a respected dramatic actress and want variety in your roles, to continue to grow in stretch in your life and in your field.
@@bethanychatman9531 which is usually the thing you hear when typecasted actors want to do serious movies, she already did the hard part. Even if she was doing this out of boredom, why would she go with Netflix? Their track record with romance movies is godawful.
This is the first time I've come across this movie and watching the first part of this video, I kind of thought that this movie would've been way cooler if it was about the friendship between Zach and Zoey's characters. A premise where she helps him overcome his vanity and he helps her overcome her career roadblocks and improve her relationship with her mother?
That's how I was feeling as well based off the tone they set up during the first few minutes of the film. They were so focused on making a similar movie to The Idea of You to compete that they ruined any potential for this movie to just be an entertainingly bad film. It's just a bad movie with no redeeming qualities as it is.
These MILF movies are so cringy to watch - why are these plots being pushed lately? What demographic enjoys watching two people get it on when they are 20+ yrs apart? I must be missing something because the Anne Hathaway movie was this exact same storyline - and even though the age gap was smaller, it still gave me the ick. 😬
@@neptunie5171 Ikr! It was never going to the next Steel Magnolias but atleast they could've tried and made it fun? Zac has already done the "dating an older lady" trope in 17 Again and that movie was extremely entertaining. This movie however, seems like a mess. Also is it just me or do Nicole and Zac have little to no chemistry?
Amazon Prime has "The Idea of You", so "The Family Affair" is Netflix's answer. They both pair up an older single mother and a younger famous man, and boost talented casts. But while the former is a cheesy romcom which tells its story coherently, the latter is all over the place tonally, with no real direction.
I love Kathy Bates but she’s never been afraid of B movies or weird roles. She’s done sci fi channel original miniseries, Merge Mansion ads, and tons of other random things
I think what kills me in this movie is that Zara’s family are constantly undermining and infantalizing her. Her mother takes her to a pediatrician when she suffers a concussion ffs. Zara is zero questions asked a bad friend in this movie, but since her mother is constantly LYING to her about dating her abusive boss there’s some valid reasons for her get upset and everyone treats her like she’s just being dramatic. Yeah she tells the whole story about learning and growing into a better person at the end but Zara’s story arch shouldn’t be FORGIVE ABUSIVE BOSS AND LYING MOM with basically no accountability or acknowledment on the moms part for integrating someone who abused her daughter for two years into their lives and that be a happy ending. The knowledge of what Zac’s character did to her daughter didn’t make her break up with him. It was the knowledge that her “special” date wasn’t special and that he bought her the same gift he does to break everyone up. Then the mother gets mad for giving her this information despite that information being what she justified to end their relationship. Like kidman’s character aknowledges ‘oh what he did to ME was bad’ but you know what it’s my daughters fault for doing it in an EMBARASSINNG way despite her trying repeatedly to tell her mother in just CONVERSATION what a terrible choice zacs character would be and her mother constantly shutting her down. Maybe I’m optimistic or just naive in thinking a parent hearing someone made their child’s life a living hell for as long as they’ve known them probably should have been that breakup instigator. And maybe we give Zara a lot of shit for dealing with two people who are constantly lying and betraying her trust in them.
While I normally like Joey King, Zara has got to be the most unlikable, whiny, self absorbed protagonist I've seen recently. She deserves to choose better projects, and the only character I liked was Kathy Bates' wise Grandma.
Personally I've had a tough time taking her seriously after she aged out of her child star phase. I like to think it isn't her fault because I actually thought she was pretty good as a kid with stuff like Ramona and Beezus and White House Down. Between the crappy romcoms like this and Kissing Booth mixed with her doing some of the worst and unintentionally hilarious horror movies I've ever seen like Wish Upon and Slender Man it's been tough to watch.
@@bigbearkat2010 I checked her acting credits on Wikipedia and aside from Bullet Train (which I quite liked and thought her performance in was pretty solid) her post-2017 film work has to be the worst track record I've seen of any actor in recent memory
The intro to nicole kidmans character, is the intro to sandra bullock's character, in that Jungle movie she did with Channing Tate! Like literally word for word, but instead of her mother in the room, its her Editor on the phone, telling her to get back out there, literally for Sandra's character who turned into a hermit with social anxiety after her hisbands passing... which is also eerie, considering what she's going though now 😢
I noticed a similar thing with Kidman playing Lucille ball in being the Ricardo’s. She was fine during the serious drama scenes but when recreating moments from the show or in rehearsals she just felt so stiff.
That hair on Nicole..... maybe it was an afterthought after the budget was spent? I'm sure someone would've donated or lended a much better hair piece than that. That color. Jesus. Just wow. I was offended.
I think the issue of the daughter being the main character but rhere being so much efron and kidman could have actually been leaned into harder to be the best way to make it more of a comedy. Cuz most rom coms its just focused on the 2 in love with the side characters, like a daughter literally jusy being supporting characters. This movie could have basically been like: its a romcom but the daughter makes it all abt her. But they ended up just making it serious.
21:43 the logo on her headphones is from American Airlines, they’re those headsets you can buy to listen to the in flight tv. I’m bothered that I knew that branding so quickly and also confused why they had it so plainly.
I'm 90% sure that this movie was made because someone had access to a bunch of different designer clothing and a time limit to use them all in the same movie. But I'm also in love with most of Nicole Kidman's sweaters in this movie so I'm okay with it.
We already saw kidman and efron in a romantic relationship except it was in 2012 in a movie named Paper boy! There, they actually looked like a age gap thing ... here not so much...
I just want to say for all the people thinking Efron's jaw is the result of bad plastic surgery/filler - he had to have reconstructive surgery on his jaw after falling and nearly detaching it - the muscles are slightly overdeveloped bc he pushed himself to film a movie he was already signed on before everything had fully healed
The fall was a decade before he showed up looking like a brick though, let's not be so naive to believe his entire face looking distorted recently is the result of an inury 10 years ago
Zac Effron looks so much like David Hasselhoff in this movie. And him and Nicole Kidman honestly isn't that out of place. Certainly nothing close to the weirdness of The Idea of You.
I would happily PAY to see a stand alone flick only of Kathy Bates' character - literary agent, tired of everyone 's BS, living her best life! She could sit around in meetings the entirety of it and it would be a better film than this one...
I honestly forgot how inconsistent the tone was in this movie. When I decide to do a movie review YT channel I definitely need to watch things twice before doing so. Also I loved the movie shortcomings.
Zack's Cher imitation sealed the "I'm gonna skip!" decision from my girlfriend (which means I'm not going either!). Thank you, Amanda. Dodged a bullet, 'cause labeling some movie a romcom to my GF, is like tossing chum into the water to a shark.
I was already stunned when I saw THE Nicole Kidman in this movie, but when katy bates showed up I had the same reaction as you, I literally said out loud “why are you here”
I'm 27 and my Mom would still tan my hide if I pulled almost any of the things she did in the movie with her Mom. My Mom was a "I'll give you something to cry about Mom" not a carry you around screaming Mom.
Zac's face is clogged with filler to the point of distraction, I couldn't watch the movie properly. His plastic surgeon hates him. Like can you imagine looking at 2009 Zac Efron and going "do you know what would make you MORE attractive? If we stuff your face full of botox and implants"
Yes thank you. I saw that chin for the first time in Iron Claw and thought it had to be a very realistic but ridiculously unnecessary prosthetic. When I heard it was plastic surgery I was like "you're Zac Efron, why would you do that?"
@@bigbearkat2010 they completely changed his face structure and for what 😭No one can't convince me that he wouldn't be looking better now if he hadn't done all of that to his face.
@@sossyedits he absolutely looked better, that's what makes it so confusing. Just a couple years ago he still had his boyish good looks to the point that Amanda was refusing to believe he was old enough to be the dad of a 12 year old in her Firestarter review and now he looks like someone tried to vaguely draw him from memory
Honestly, I hadn't heard he had plastic surgery so while he looked off, I just thought he looked so much older. It aged me about 15 years looking at him. Now realizing it's obviously plastic surgery, I feel significantly better lol
I can't actually tell if the people making television and movies are getting progressively more morally bankrupt or if the rest of us evolving morally and they're just being left behind. It seems like one of the most complaints I encounter about so many projects is that the characters are bad people, and the project doesn't seem to know that.
this is one of those movies you can tell was written and made by someone who has never even sort of lived in the real world and has always lived a sheltered life. which of course tracks since they were also the writer for the movie "freedom writers" you know, that movie about that super smarticle white savior teacher fixing the poor "inner city gangster" kids.
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Not my mommy.
Twitch?
I love that your microphone is bigger than your face. Makes me feel less worried about holding my tiny one. 😂😂😂
@@BdazzldNails youtube first then probably twitch :)
My mommy
Ahaha I only just seen that
Okay but the "It's one of a kind - I only have two!" is exactly the kind of dumb comedy himbo character that I want to watch Zac in
Same here!! The entire movie felt like a first draft that was written by someone insufferable, but that moment and the Cher part (aka whenever Zac goes full himbo) were genuinely funny. If it had leaned harder satirical and just been about these two ridiculous characters bouncing off each other, maybe cutting the mom thing entirely, that would have been a much more enjoyable movie
I was also wondering about Kidmans hair, and in another video drag queens Trixie and Katya immediately clocked it as a (bad) wig. And I trust those ladies to know their wigs. So maybe that's why it looks so weird?
Can’t Bob Netflik spring for a decent wig?? This one is abominable.
@@jaybee2337Bob Netflik 😂 I hear it in her voice
@jaybee2337 That wig is WIGGING for all it's worth. And yes, the hairline looks very... off. Is it even a lace-front? 😂
@@lisah-p8474absolutely isn’t, it’s why they NEVER pull her bangs back! max a lace parting
The way they immediately yell “WIG!!” lol they clock those wigs before the actress is even in focus 😂
Lol my friend and I watched this and she said "this feels like it was written by someone who really resents their kid."
this is so accurate
It really does come across that way tbh
Poor Zara, instead of going the easy way of film-school, unpaid internship, shitty low-pay job, shitty paying-a-little-more job, work place politics, industry politics, another shitty not-paying-enough job and at least one sexual harassment incident in order to become a producer, she had to go the hard way of nepotism and wait two whole years. The struggle is real......
one sexual harassment if you are lucky, unfortunately
At least she got to wear perfect make-up in every single scene, which is totally what actual women are like every waking second.
I'm unsettled that its my name too I feel violated xD
THIS!
Ppl in movies ususally have unrealisticly nice homes but this one was sooo enourmous and luxurious it was incredibly distracting
All the films/shows Nicole Kidman does have incredible houses.. I dont think she ever plays a normal person with normal finances
“Strong Jaw and mom” I’m deceased ☠️😂😂😂😂😂😂
There was a comment in Alex Myers video on this movie that basically called him live action Handsome Squidward and I can't unsee it.
@@bigbearkat2010 why did you say that, now I can't unsee it too Dx
Ahahaha
So true
He looks like a only slightly younger David Hasselhoff mixed with a bit of Rob Lowe, and I'm so confused.
My favorite part of this film was watching Trixie and Katya realize in real time the couple's reconciliation scene took place in their local Gelsons. And the pride they felt at that. Other than that I'm just glad Joey King keeps getting those Netflix checks.
I didn’t realize they had done a reaction to this!! I need to go watch it ASAP 🤩
“Why is she wearing a handkerchief? In our Gelsons 😤”
So you are glad she ruins her chances of becoming a serious actress with a life long career?
@@miskatonic6210 What a wildly insane comment! I feel that deserves an equally weird answer so my response is "I cook frozen pizzas and immediately put them in the fridge so I can have cold pizza which I think is superior to hot pizza" Hope that answers your question
Something deeply unsettling about the amount of (bad) work done on both Efron and Kidman. They look the same age. The look like AI versions of themselves. It's trippy.
It's like Efron started a Hulk transformation but it stopped halfway through
@@bigbearkat2010 He's turning into Hulk at the same rate Kidman is turning into the Grinch
Efron is for sure the new Mickey Rourke
to be fair Efrons was mostly reconstructive surgery after he basically shattered his jaw
Yes! The major reason the older woman/younger man dynamic does not work for me at all because they look the same age...
Kathy Bates got around $125k vs Nicole Kidman getting millions for this and I just cant
I thought the "better love story than Twilight" memes died out with the Dicaprio Oscar memes because Netflix and Wattpad keep churning out crap like this.
Wattpad isn't bad, the fics belong there 😂 it only gets really bad when someone gets their bad stories made into bad movies on streaming.
Nah, I still see "still a better love story than Twilight" around a lot. Not as much, but it's still there.
Wattpad doesn't 'churn out' anything, it's not a production company. It is simply a site for people to share their stories and it is perfectly fine for that. The trouble starts when someone gets the idea that if a story is "Wattpad-famous", then it is worth publishing. Which is almost never the case.
It was replaced by the "Genuinely Not a Better Love Story Than Twilight" award.
It's unfortunately probably Kidman's botox and filler. It's hard to be an emotional, empathetic character when you can't emote 😬😢
Honestly "they did get burned getting too close to an underground nuclear fusion plant" is pretty good as far as Hollywood action movie mythological allusions go.
What we need now is Mike Flanagan making a MILF-themed Netflix horror series.
Yes, because good looking older women are so terrifying.
Yes! He already has carla gugino to be the milf!
@@marniekilbourne608 With Flanagan's ouvre, I wouldn't be surprised if the young handsome man is also a scary character
The Haunting at MILF Manor. A film by Mike Flanagan.
@@sebswede9005yaaasss, jokes like this are the reason I love internet
Just find it funny that, after years of Hollywood devaluing actresses over a certain age, they're now having a moment in the worst way possible with all these milf movies.
At least its something. Maybe if we dont bash it too much they will realize that older women are interesting humans too and put them in more different movies?
@@lexa2310I'm all for older women having much more prominent roles. Just not if they've been overly dunked in freaky plastic surgery, a la Bride of Wildenstein, who seems to be increasingly the look Kidman is going for: warped drag queen chic.
I don’t see how it’s the worst way? Bad writing, sure, but showing single moms and older women in a positive way is like… a really good thing.
I can't really watch movies with Nicole Kidman anymore. She can't move her face, which is really quite important for an actor. It made The Northman so awkward when she looked straight out of a botox clinic in the seventh century. And Zac Efron looks just as bad.
Help that's so true 😭 the tops of their faces do not move......
The thing about her that makes me crazy is how terrible her American accent is even after all these years playing mostly American characters it’s just awful lol
@@MilesToGoGo when she was in Big Little Lies I thought her character was Australian because her accent was so bad lmao, and I'm australian so it's not like I'm the best at spotting a bad american accent but god
I saw him in this video and went like: wait, what happened to his face?
@@yeet-lj3dr yes omg in Big Little Lies it was the worst!! 😅 I know accents are hard but you’d think at this point in her career with the resources she has it would be so much better
The Movie was SO bad but the "Do you believe in Life after Love" - 'I'm trying Cher!!' had me in Tears laughing and I now quote this on a semi-regular Basis.
That was hilarious lmao
Let the record show that the title used to read “Netflix Made a MILF Movie and It’s Bad” before Amanda changed it in an attempt to appease the censors
This movie was clearly made by people who are deep in the industry and know how to mock it well, but they don't even realize how normalized it is to be a nepo baby or just flat out rich so that's just there. In the background. Like an elephant they can't see
Apparently Kathy Bates hardly got paid for this movie, too. Blew my mind.
Lord, that's insane.
Did she do it as a favor?
Maybe she bought a pyramid and needed to pay some bills so she just took any job that was offered to her.
god, why would she do this to herself??
Movies that I have no interest in watching - and have flooded media enough that I *know* I don’t want to watch them - make the perfect Amanda the Jedi fodder.
She really is the 'i watched it so you don't have to' hero we didn't deserve!
Once again Amanda's shirt is immaculate
I've been watching Drag Race for so many years, I clocked those bad lace fronts in the first 10min of the movie 😂
If this was a Reddit post I’d say Everyone is an asshole here. The mom deserves to be happy but dating her daughter’s boss is over the line. The main character is an asshole for ignoring the feelings of her friends. Zach Efrons character is an asshole for the way he treats the main character. The dead dad is an asshole for wanting a divorce after his wife’s success. The only redeemable character is the grandmother. Also no one communicates in this movie, again with the exception of the grandmother who tells it like it is.
The thing is, we never see Zara ignoring her friends. I don't know if I missed anything, but I watched this movie without seeing a signal red flag from Zara. It was just never seen that she actively ignored her friends, it just seems they hid it from her very well and are mad at that the result of hiding it well. I just felt like this whole movie was about Zara essentially being manipulated into accepting her boss dating her mom
@@jasminechildress6938 true! They were hiding what they were going through and were pissed when she didn’t know? Smh
@@CleverUsername69420 Yeah, the whole movie, they treat Zara like this ungrateful kid who takes her mom for granted, but she doesn't act like that. She was right the whole time but was treated like a brat. I literally thought,"Oh my gosh, is this whole movie gonna be about forcing Zara to accept this relationship?" I'm not surprised just disappointed to be right
I wish that I had her safety net. That's a pretty spectacular safety net.
Kathy Bates got paid $150K and Nicole got $10 Million... Thats crazy! Also, Joey King got $650K, sorry but Kathy should get more money than that, she is worth more money than that.
my main takeaway from this movie is that liza koshy can actually act and she deserves her own terrible netflix movie
I think she plays a secondary role in the Sabrina Carpenter terrible Netflix movie and she also got her own terrible TH-cam Red show back when that was a thing
She always plays the best friend, and it's a shame.
This movie has a lot of "it needed more of this!!" for a movie that didn't have much of that.
It's unfortunate that they skimmed on the humor--the final joke ("GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!") is actually quite good.
A few of the jokes in the clips Amanda showed were pretty good, “THESE ARE ONE OF A KIND! I have two” got me too. It’s a real shame that it’s missing more of that.
The most unbeliavable thing about this movie, is that Zac Efron goes for the mom instead of his young assistant. We all know that if this was real life, the boss would be trying to date Joey King.
At least Joey’s character is an adult, so yay, I guess…
"Getting organic in the organics" 😂 Amanda! Staaaaaahp (please never stop💕)
Kidman's yellow wig deserves a razzie
Honestly I don't think I've watched anything Kidmen has been in, in years. Draining the life of a scene is a good description.
Thank you for taking the hit in this one.
Honestly she's not even a bad actress but she has no comedic chops. She's done relatively well mostly sticking to Oscar bait dramas
"It's Die Hard meets Miracle on 34th Street" ok but Violent Night is an actual movie with that premise and it is AMAZING.
Tbh the whole 'man's wife is more successful than him in the workplace and he is more than willing to ditch her over that alone' is depressingly realistic. Men's egos are like peaches. Rotten ones at that, cause at least a good peach is still delicious, even bruised.
💀💀 I’m going to retain this.
I hate that people blame children for being difficult or being unable to communicate. Kid was _SEVEN!_ She didn't have a nefarious plan to ruin the trip to France for her mom. She was clearly in distress and either could not articulate or wasn't having her needs met.
And sometimes a temper tantrum is just a temper tantrum especially by the age of 7! She was NOT a toddler! A 7 year old can tell you exactly what they need. There was zero need for her to scream and insist on being carried up the Eiffel Tower! I couldn't do that carrying a 7 year old. It's quite a climb. That kind of thinking is why this world is full of so many spoiled brats!
Some of us are so lucky to have adults in our lives too teach us these things. Be happy you had at least halfway decent parentsand rule models. Monkey see monkey do is a saying for a reason sweetheart.
@@marniekilbourne608 The kid didn't ask to go to France. Her parents went and so she's dragged along for the ride. They want to be all romantic up on the Eiffel Tower, and shockingly enough their kid isn't thrilled about the hike up, because it is indeed 'quite a climb'. It's not like the kid begged to go to Disneyland only to act like an entitled brat when there. The parents wanted a romantic trip in Paris, and their kid inconvenienced them. And god forbid if the kid was neurodivergent, which would pretty much guarantee 'tantrums' like this--but no, it's just spoiled brats, something something bring back the belt because back in my day something.
@@mygoldenwitch The gag being that people complaining about literal children acting like "spoiled brats" 100% grew up to be spoiled, entitled adults who can't stand a second of inconvenience.
At least children have the excuse of being kids. You have a whole lifetime of experience and STILL choose to act like this? 😂
THANK YOU !!! also, wtf, a child acting like a child is not the same thing as a boss mistreating their employee. why is the movie trying to tell me they’re on the same level????
Kidman's hair (or wig- I don't care) looked like someone bleached it and forgot the toner...but even more distracting was her and Efron's face. What in the Frankenstein's plastic surgery happened? It was almost "uncanny valley" looking at them. No hate to botox or filler- whatever makes you feel good, but if you're an actor and it hinders your face from...you know, acting. It's maybe not the best idea? 😬This movie wasn't funny, all I felt was secondhand embarrassment and cringe. 🙈
The aberrations that were "Bewitched" and "The Stepford Wives" established that Nicole Kidman has no business AT ALL doing comedy.
It's such a weird complaint to have when you really think about it too. "Oh I'm tired of this being a respected dramatic actress going into my 60s"
@bigbearkat2010 you can be a respected dramatic actress and want variety in your roles, to continue to grow in stretch in your life and in your field.
@@bethanychatman9531 which is usually the thing you hear when typecasted actors want to do serious movies, she already did the hard part. Even if she was doing this out of boredom, why would she go with Netflix? Their track record with romance movies is godawful.
Wait is stepford supposed to be a comedy???
@@corinnewelter1144 The version she was in supposed to be...
This is the first time I've come across this movie and watching the first part of this video, I kind of thought that this movie would've been way cooler if it was about the friendship between Zach and Zoey's characters.
A premise where she helps him overcome his vanity and he helps her overcome her career roadblocks and improve her relationship with her mother?
That's how I was feeling as well based off the tone they set up during the first few minutes of the film. They were so focused on making a similar movie to The Idea of You to compete that they ruined any potential for this movie to just be an entertainingly bad film. It's just a bad movie with no redeeming qualities as it is.
These MILF movies are so cringy to watch - why are these plots being pushed lately? What demographic enjoys watching two people get it on when they are 20+ yrs apart? I must be missing something because the Anne Hathaway movie was this exact same storyline - and even though the age gap was smaller, it still gave me the ick. 😬
@@neptunie5171 Ikr! It was never going to the next Steel Magnolias but atleast they could've tried and made it fun? Zac has already done the "dating an older lady" trope in 17 Again and that movie was extremely entertaining. This movie however, seems like a mess.
Also is it just me or do Nicole and Zac have little to no chemistry?
We still need the conclusion to MILF Manor, I need to know how that resolves and I'm not going to he happy of I actually have to watch it...
I watched this one night while I was drinking White Russians by myself and playing Sims. It was the perfect background movie for that.
Amazon Prime has "The Idea of You", so "The Family Affair" is Netflix's answer. They both pair up an older single mother and a younger famous man, and boost talented casts. But while the former is a cheesy romcom which tells its story coherently, the latter is all over the place tonally, with no real direction.
I wonder if Kathy Bates was full of misery being in this.
Yeah bet she had to go eat some fried green tomatoes about it
She should have bought a squirrel
Got me skipping forward for a sponsor segment that didn't exist :'). You got me
I love Kathy Bates but she’s never been afraid of B movies or weird roles. She’s done sci fi channel original miniseries, Merge Mansion ads, and tons of other random things
That just makes me like her more.
She was the queen of hearts in that Alice in wonderland series on syfi ,from what I remember it was pretty good 👍
I think what kills me in this movie is that Zara’s family are constantly undermining and infantalizing her. Her mother takes her to a pediatrician when she suffers a concussion ffs.
Zara is zero questions asked a bad friend in this movie, but since her mother is constantly LYING to her about dating her abusive boss there’s some valid reasons for her get upset and everyone treats her like she’s just being dramatic. Yeah she tells the whole story about learning and growing into a better person at the end but Zara’s story arch shouldn’t be FORGIVE ABUSIVE BOSS AND LYING MOM with basically no accountability or acknowledment on the moms part for integrating someone who abused her daughter for two years into their lives and that be a happy ending.
The knowledge of what Zac’s character did to her daughter didn’t make her break up with him. It was the knowledge that her “special” date wasn’t special and that he bought her the same gift he does to break everyone up. Then the mother gets mad for giving her this information despite that information being what she justified to end their relationship. Like kidman’s character aknowledges ‘oh what he did to ME was bad’ but you know what it’s my daughters fault for doing it in an EMBARASSINNG way despite her trying repeatedly to tell her mother in just CONVERSATION what a terrible choice zacs character would be and her mother constantly shutting her down.
Maybe I’m optimistic or just naive in thinking a parent hearing someone made their child’s life a living hell for as long as they’ve known them probably should have been that breakup instigator. And maybe we give Zara a lot of shit for dealing with two people who are constantly lying and betraying her trust in them.
Completely agree 👏🏼
Joey King's character is soooo tired. I'm really done with that trope.
isn’t she technically just playing her brother in the kissing booth lolol
@@fm.9783 YES!
While I normally like Joey King, Zara has got to be the most unlikable, whiny, self absorbed protagonist I've seen recently. She deserves to choose better projects, and the only character I liked was Kathy Bates' wise Grandma.
Personally I've had a tough time taking her seriously after she aged out of her child star phase. I like to think it isn't her fault because I actually thought she was pretty good as a kid with stuff like Ramona and Beezus and White House Down. Between the crappy romcoms like this and Kissing Booth mixed with her doing some of the worst and unintentionally hilarious horror movies I've ever seen like Wish Upon and Slender Man it's been tough to watch.
@@bigbearkat2010 I checked her acting credits on Wikipedia and aside from Bullet Train (which I quite liked and thought her performance in was pretty solid) her post-2017 film work has to be the worst track record I've seen of any actor in recent memory
For me, I never saw Zara has unlikable or bratty. It felt more like we were being told she's that way without any shown examples
Okay but why does Zac Efron suddenly look eerily similar to David Hasselhoff? 😶🌫️🫣 WHAT happened?!
Did anyone in production stand up and say, "but guys, Efron look 50." ?
It is distracting how Zac and Joey CLEARLY have better chemistry...
You mean by having any at all?
@@bigbearkat2010😂😂 yeah the bar's pretty low here
The intro to nicole kidmans character, is the intro to sandra bullock's character, in that Jungle movie she did with Channing Tate! Like literally word for word, but instead of her mother in the room, its her Editor on the phone, telling her to get back out there, literally for Sandra's character who turned into a hermit with social anxiety after her hisbands passing... which is also eerie, considering what she's going though now 😢
that botox had nicole kidman look like she just came back from playing minecraft, why would she do this to herself??
Kathy Bates steals any scene she's in this movie btw
Literally just finished the PLL summer school vid. Perfect timing
they really need to get a toner on nicole kidman’s hair
Wig
I noticed a similar thing with Kidman playing Lucille ball in being the Ricardo’s. She was fine during the serious drama scenes but when recreating moments from the show or in rehearsals she just felt so stiff.
Not acknowledging celebrities in grocery stores is standard Los Angeles behavior.
Joey King is going to be type casted if she isn't careful... Or not. Get dat money gurl
That hair on Nicole..... maybe it was an afterthought after the budget was spent? I'm sure someone would've donated or lended a much better hair piece than that. That color. Jesus. Just wow. I was offended.
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That intro already has me intrigued, can't wait what the rest of the video will bring!
It feels like Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman look like "We got so and so at home"
i can't get over the fact that nicole kidman is flagging in that ending grocery store scene
Gonna be real, dating your child’s shitty boss is crazy, even if he’s not actually as shitty as the child told you he was.
10:56 i thought you were going to say that heartbreak feels good in a place like this 😭
I think the issue of the daughter being the main character but rhere being so much efron and kidman could have actually been leaned into harder to be the best way to make it more of a comedy. Cuz most rom coms its just focused on the 2 in love with the side characters, like a daughter literally jusy being supporting characters. This movie could have basically been like: its a romcom but the daughter makes it all abt her. But they ended up just making it serious.
21:43 the logo on her headphones is from American Airlines, they’re those headsets you can buy to listen to the in flight tv. I’m bothered that I knew that branding so quickly and also confused why they had it so plainly.
But they look so similar though. Surgeries matchings! Jaw-mouth besties
Honestly why can't these streaming platforms I don't know make a good movie
So Netflix watched the Idea of You and said "we could do that too" only horribly?
I bet some of the reshoots were to capitalize on the romcom aspect for that exact reason
@@hockeygrrlmuseagreed 😂
I'm 90% sure that this movie was made because someone had access to a bunch of different designer clothing and a time limit to use them all in the same movie.
But I'm also in love with most of Nicole Kidman's sweaters in this movie so I'm okay with it.
We already saw kidman and efron in a romantic relationship except it was in 2012 in a movie named Paper boy! There, they actually looked like a age gap thing ... here not so much...
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!
i also felt like the way they filmed it was sooooo boring like every convo was filmed from the same awkward angles i hated this movie so much jesus
I just want to say for all the people thinking Efron's jaw is the result of bad plastic surgery/filler - he had to have reconstructive surgery on his jaw after falling and nearly detaching it - the muscles are slightly overdeveloped bc he pushed himself to film a movie he was already signed on before everything had fully healed
The fall was a decade before he showed up looking like a brick though, let's not be so naive to believe his entire face looking distorted recently is the result of an inury 10 years ago
Zac Effron looks so much like David Hasselhoff in this movie. And him and Nicole Kidman honestly isn't that out of place. Certainly nothing close to the weirdness of The Idea of You.
Your speed talking makes me anxious, lol. Like there's a countdown, and you have to fit everything in before the bomb explodes.
I would happily PAY to see a stand alone flick only of Kathy Bates' character - literary agent, tired of everyone 's BS, living her best life! She could sit around in meetings the entirety of it and it would be a better film than this one...
I honestly forgot how inconsistent the tone was in this movie. When I decide to do a movie review YT channel I definitely need to watch things twice before doing so. Also I loved the movie shortcomings.
I still have yet to watch this movie, all my mind goes to is that scene with Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron in The Paperboy lol
I wasn’t expecting much from this movie, but damn they gave us NOTHING.
God his jaw really does look huge. Lol 😂😂😂
Not the spilling of the organic avocados!
It was surprise that the movie didn't make the old cliche of boss falling in love with the assistant.
Zack's Cher imitation sealed the "I'm gonna skip!" decision from my girlfriend (which means I'm not going either!). Thank you, Amanda. Dodged a bullet, 'cause labeling some movie a romcom to my GF, is like tossing chum into the water to a shark.
it's surprising how little chemistry the actors have. they kiss like dead fish.
The thumbnail is perfectly shot to make zac effron's chin look absurdly long
Amanda out here watching the bad movies so we don't have to
I was already stunned when I saw THE Nicole Kidman in this movie, but when katy bates showed up I had the same reaction as you, I literally said out loud “why are you here”
I'm 27 and my Mom would still tan my hide if I pulled almost any of the things she did in the movie with her Mom. My Mom was a "I'll give you something to cry about Mom" not a carry you around screaming Mom.
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I am so bummed to hear we missed out on the title of "Mother F***er." We deserved that caliber of title, dammit.
Zac's face is clogged with filler to the point of distraction, I couldn't watch the movie properly. His plastic surgeon hates him. Like can you imagine looking at 2009 Zac Efron and going "do you know what would make you MORE attractive? If we stuff your face full of botox and implants"
Yes thank you. I saw that chin for the first time in Iron Claw and thought it had to be a very realistic but ridiculously unnecessary prosthetic. When I heard it was plastic surgery I was like "you're Zac Efron, why would you do that?"
@@bigbearkat2010 they completely changed his face structure and for what 😭No one can't convince me that he wouldn't be looking better now if he hadn't done all of that to his face.
@@sossyedits he absolutely looked better, that's what makes it so confusing. Just a couple years ago he still had his boyish good looks to the point that Amanda was refusing to believe he was old enough to be the dad of a 12 year old in her Firestarter review and now he looks like someone tried to vaguely draw him from memory
Honestly, I hadn't heard he had plastic surgery so while he looked off, I just thought he looked so much older. It aged me about 15 years looking at him. Now realizing it's obviously plastic surgery, I feel significantly better lol
I wonder if it's just me but in some scenes he looks like a slightly younger Hasselhoff and here I thought we left him behind in the 90s 😱
"It's one of a kind" "I have two" Oh nooo that's so bad T___T
I can't actually tell if the people making television and movies are getting progressively more morally bankrupt or if the rest of us evolving morally and they're just being left behind. It seems like one of the most complaints I encounter about so many projects is that the characters are bad people, and the project doesn't seem to know that.
You have to do a video for the Miranda Cosgrove movie Mother of the Bride. Which based on the trailer is Netflix’s answer to Anyone but You
Just watched The Idea of You last week. REALLY loved it. Just love Nicholas Galitzine.
this is one of those movies you can tell was written and made by someone who has never even sort of lived in the real world and has always lived a sheltered life. which of course tracks since they were also the writer for the movie "freedom writers" you know, that movie about that super smarticle white savior teacher fixing the poor "inner city gangster" kids.
so the real bad guy is the mother for raising her daughter into an entitled brat?