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Anyone But You [Blu-ray + Digital]
(Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, et al / Blu-ray + Digital / R / 2024 / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Overview: In the edgy comedy Anyone But You, Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.

Blu-ray Verdict: In all truth, and in all the best ways possible, this was like an R-rated raunchy Hallmark movie where people actually have sex! I can do without the miscommunication trope that drove apart a couple that seemed to be connecting, but I enjoyed the banter and really enjoyed the stars.

Serious critics typically don’t appreciate the rom-com genre and judge them harshly. I sat down last night with my adult children and we all loved the movie. My kids make fun of my love for Hallmark movies, but even they liked this one. Furthermore, we laughed out loud repeatedly and got up at its conclusion smiling at one another. And I just love that feeling, don’t you.

Sure, the script is flawed, the plot’s totally ridiculous, and some of the dialogue is a bit off, but Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney light up the screen with their amazing chemistry. In mean, come on now, they’re also quite extraordinary specimens and look like they spend 6 hours a day in the gym, but I also like them as actors. Indeed, Glen Powell was really good in another enjoyable modern rom-com with Zoey Deutch called Set It Up and he’s fearless here, especially with the over the top body humor.

Sydney Sweeney is certainly voluptuous, and gorgeous to look at, but she’s also established herself as a great actress in more critic friendly shows like Euphoria and White Lotus. Edgy and dark is fine, and it certainly gets taken more seriously by the critics, but I prefer getting lost in an escapist rom-com that doesn’t involve terrible people doing terrible things. I want more of this!

Special Features:
He said She Said
Everyone Down Under
Outtakes & Bloopers
Deleted Scenes
ASMR Pickup Lines
Aussie Snacks

Official Anyone But You Trailer





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