The Lovebirds (2020)

This film has a solid critic score. But it has a poor audience score, both on RT and on here. If you read the reviews on RT, you'll notice that most of the positive ones come from critics who are recommending it solely because they like the leads. I think the two leads are both very talented, but I don't agree with the critics who are doing this. This is a bad film, whether you like the leads or not.

It has become rather common for critics to disregard significant flaws and still recommend a film essentially just because it promotes diversity or another form of political correctness, which I find to be pandering and problematic. This film was suppose to get a wide theatrical release and I'm glad major studios have begun picking up more films with diverse leads, but that isn't a good reason to recommend it if it isn't otherwise well-made. Those films still should be analyzed just like any other and the leads not being white shouldn't cause it to receive bonus points that ultimately nudge it positive, when the review would otherwise be ultimately negative.

I like the leads, but their presence wasn't enough to compensate for the fact that there's nothing else here. The murder mystery aspect and overall story felt very carelessly written (especially its conclusion), and there's nothing clever about the sequence of events that the characters go through. There also isn't much characterization. The film relies completely on the leads and them being funny, and although they're likable, it features scattered small laughs at best.

I'm usually not against films being shorter, but the beginning felt very rushed. The characters and their relationship could have used a lot more development before throwing them into the murder mystery. Ultimately clocking out at not even an hour and a half, the film abruptly ends with you feeling like nothing memorable ever happened.

I also really didn't appreciate the multiple times that characters were called rapists solely due to being in a fraternity. Not everyone in a frat is a rapist and films shouldn't make jokes that reinforce that assumption.

Fmovies: We really wanted to enjoy this movie but it was annoying how unfunny and forced this was. Granted we only made it 30 mins in. So take it for what it is.

I thought the trailer was kind of bad so I was pleasantly surprised by how funny the movie was. Gotta give credit to Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae. I was a fan of Kumail from Silicon Valley and The Big Sick, but I had yet to see anything Issa Rae is in. Now I really want to watch Insecure. The film is also self aware, it's only around 90 minutes so it doesn't waste any time. Overall, solid comedy but I'm glad I watched it on Netflix rather than in a theater.

The Lovebirds fmovies. Waste of time. not funny. not gripping. the story is simple.

A lot of Netflix original movies have sucked for a while now. This joins the gang. Boring and totally not funny. I hope such movies (and Netflix) are not ushering in an era of such low budget, quick turnaround movies without too much thought into the entire process of filmmaking

The best way to describe this would be two talented actors were give a plot that sounded good in theory but was utterly destroyed by a terrible script and veeeery poor editing.