I Give It A Year

Overview

Although I Give It A Year comes across as a slightly odd mismatch of things it still manages to provide plenty of laughs.

First time director Dan Mazer wrote Ali G and Borat so working on a rom com seems a strange leap for him to make. The film varies between being hugely inappropriate to strangley guarded. Rafe Spall and Rose Byrne are Josh and Nat, two attractive and smart people who get married too quickly, perhaps more because they want to marry someone rather than because they want to marry each other. It's obvious to everyone close to them that they are chalk and cheese but earnest as they are, they are trying to make it work.

As if that wasn't bad enough, they are both in love with other people, Josh never got over his first serious girlfriend Chloe (Anna Faris) and Nat has a huge crush on her smooth-talking American client Guy (Simon Baker). Perhaps Mazer tries a bit too hard to make Josh and Nat seem incompatible because I found it wasn't easy to believe they ever would have fallen for one another. That, unfortunately, makes the ending rather predictable.

Responsible for most of the indecent humour is Josh's best mate Danny, played by Stephen Merchant. The highlight performance for me was the highly cynical Olivia Colman as a marriage counsellor. The scene when she interrupts the couple's session to scream expletives down the phone to her husband is hilarious. Overall, a fairly entertaining take on what happens once the happily ever after moment has been and gone.

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