Love Again (2023)

[Himmel]

Celine Dion, Sam Heughan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas have been cast in Sony’s Screen Gems romantic drama, tentatively titled “Text for You.”

The film is an English remake of the German-language film “SMS Fur Dich,” based on Sofie Cramer’s novel. The story centers on a woman who, after tragically losing her fiancé, starts to send romantic texts to his old cell. It turns out the number has been reassigned to a man across town suffering from a similar heartbreak. The two meet and feel an undeniable connection, but can’t seem to leave the past behind. Dion’s music gives them the courage to take a chance on love again.

Jim Strouse is directing from his own script, and Lauryn Kahnis is undertaking the most recent re-write. Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee and Esther Hornstein are producing. (*)

[unberechenbar]

I thought this was okay. I liked that it took a while for the two characters to meet and there was a nice cameo. It was an interesting choice for them to show the text messages as text onscreen instead of just show the phone screen. Most of the humor came from Sam Heughan's character, who was weird. Hearing Celine Dion talk about her own romance was nice.

Saw this in a small auditorium that was about 3/4 full. It did get some laughs out of the audience.

[BluBonnet]

I can totally understand why this is the kind of movie that gets really low ratings from critics and yet good ratings from the public.

It is unredeemable derivative, unoriginal, downright cheesy, corny, and extremely predictable. And yet - there are enough moments that work and Chopra in particular is extremely charismatic, so almost against my better judgment, I ended up (mostly) having a good time with this one.

Yes there are plenty of funny moments, but it really is lowbrow humor.

The Celine Dion subplot is just too farfetched and doesn't quite work, I guess, maybe a more talented filmmaker would have been able to make it fly, but you'd have to be talking about a Lubitsch-level genius or something.

[Captain N]

Looking forward to seeing/getting this.

[ThisIsJonny]

Out now on digital.

[An4h0ny]

I have no idea how I missed this film.

Not my usual fare but for some reason I feel like I'm going to love this.

It turns out the number has been reassigned to a man across town suffering from a similar heartbreak.

I mean...

[Show spoiler]

[An4h0ny]

I watched this and it's actually pretty awesome.

Priyanka Chopra is such a babe.

Just dropped to $12 on Amazon