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Spoilers below forIsnt It Romantic.
Who doesnt know her best friend is in love with her!).
Shes stuck in a Rom-Com World, and shes gotta play by the Rom-Com Rules.
Its a movie making fun of rom-coms for rom-com lovers.
So what romantic-comedy tropes does Natalie encounter in her glossy, PG-13 alternate universe?
Vulture outlines them below.
In Rom-Com World, everyone is hot.Natalies doctor?
The cop who arrests her?
Now hot (and scary!).
Some people are just too hot to be doctors!
Not in Rom-Com World!
It frightens Natalie, and frankly, it frightened me.
Where will I get my cell-phone case now, Rom-Com World?!
(No, seriously, that yellow jacket she wears to her first day of work?
But shes doing that for her, not some dude.
As soon as they get to that point, it cuts right to the morning after.
And she cant even curse about it!
Clumsy women are adorable!This is one of Natalies top gripes regarding romantic comedies.
No one found Natalie getting nailed by that halal cart adorable, now did they?
Modes of transportation are almost exclusively motorbikes, stretch limos, and helicopters.Transportation in the real world stinks.
In her reality, Natalie and her assistant Whitney are great friends and support one another.
She threatens her, gives her the double middle finger, you know, the usual.
In both universes Wilson and Gilpin are great together, and they should definitely do a buddy comedy next.
You have a sidekick who has no life outside of yours.
In this case, he is also a gay stereotype.Oh, Donny (Brandon Scott Jones).
He also, as Natalie notes, sets the gay-rights movement back several decades.
But in the real world, Donny is just your average gay drug-dealing neighbor.
Look at that not a stereotype and self-employed!
Or, you know, never.
Theres one of those here, too.
I mean, youre just getting wet.
And not in the good way.
This is Rom-Com 101: Theresalwaysa decoy guy.
But Natalie, even though well-versed in the rules of romantic comedies (especially for someone who hates them!
Even in Rom-Com World, there is no perfect guy only the perfect guy for you.
Maybe we should all start doing voice-overs for ourselves.
So, yes, the girl who hates romantic comedies is totally living out some real-life rom-com shit.
But only the good parts!
Rebel Wilson knows it.
Any large-chested woman knows it.
Im so glad Rebels awkward slo-mo run to break up a wedding sheds some light on this important matter.
Liam Hemsworth plays a sax.
THIS IS WHY WE HAVE MUSICAL NUMBERS IN ROMANTIC COMEDIES.
That montage the heroine has remembering all the moments that made her love that person?
Natalie has one about herself.
Once she opened herself up to life and love, some pretty great things happened, head-injury aside.
Now, thats a good a love story.
