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 Just Say Yes

There is nothing better than sitting down and watching a romantic comedy. Thankfully in recent years we have some new ones on offer unlike that dark period around the 2010’s. The newest one being the Dutch Netflix original, Just Say Yes. 

This movie doesn’t stray from the typical romantic comedy troupes; girl (Lottie) is dating a guy (Alex) who is all wrong, they break up she meets a guy (Chris) who is all right but both don’t express their true feelings, girl gets back together with wrong guy before finally seeing the light and finally getting together with the right guy. 

Of course as with all good romantic comedies their are nuances to the story that just make it better. Chris is sweet, helpful and a little cocky which adds to his appeal as he isn’t a clean cut obvious “good” guy, Lottie’s group of friends are stereotypes of happily single and not happily married but there is a hilarious side moment for one of them involving Lego and an unfortunately placed rocket. Not to mention a good side dose of drugs and alcohol. 

But the thing that is the real stand out that really elevates this is the relationship with the sisters. Lottie and Estelle are two different people who do care for each other with Estelle taking Lottie in after her first break up with Alex. What then happens is Estelle winds up in a whirlwind romance with Lottie’s sweet, caring widowed boss. In many ways this could be argued and being the primary relationship in the movie and with good reason as much of the conflict and resolution is spent on this relationship and honestly it works. 

The sisters are brilliantly handled at being very obviously different but no so different that you don’t understand why they want to be in each other’s lives as they keep that sister (the caring and looking out for) element. Which ends up playing well into Lottie and Chris’ end. 

I would definitely encourage others to just say yes to Just Say Yes. It is fun, easy viewing that is just slightly wacky enough to keep you interested with well rounded easy to like or easy to enjoy characters.