Charlie Day and Jenny Slate try to get their exes back in a mostly entertaining romantic comedy that could have benefited from a sharper bite
Charlie Day and Jenny Slate in I Want You Back, total strangers who bond over being dumped at the same time.Charlie Day and Jenny Slate in I Want You Back, total strangers who bond over being dumped at the same time.T
There’s something interestingly deluded and narcissistic about what drives the pair, a total denial of their immediate reality and a dogged insistence that they are better and more desirable than their exes’ new partners. It’s a heartbroken thought process that maybe some of us can vaguely relate to, but it’s the put-into-action plotting that elevates it into something wilder and less familiar.
In order for us to truly love the pair without reservation, Aptaker and Berger go to great, pained lengths to offset their deranged behaviour. The dream of Day’s character is to revolutionise retirement-home living so we see him helping elderly people, while Slate’s character develops a friendship with a struggling middle-schooler who needs advice on dealing with a fractured parental situation.
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