Feeling A Little "Lovesick" ? Well, Get Over It!

Lovesick (2014)

Not Rated

Starring Matt LeBlanc, Ali Larter, Adam Rodriguez, Ashley Williams, Rebecca Jones

Directed by Luke Matheny

The Story:

Charlie Darby (LeBlanc) is a great guy. Loves his job, loves his friends, but with women, he's not so great. Because once he falls in love, a crippling paranoid psychosis takes over and he gets insanely jealous. He's decided that he's done with women, and naturally, he meets Molly (Larter). Can he finally break his demons, or is he destined for eternal bachelorhood?

The curse of Friends continues.

The cast has gone on to do other things since the show went off the air, but most have failed to capture our attention and hearts in anything since that time.

Gone is lovable Joey as LeBlanc plays a more down to earth guy in this film, but then he snaps when it comes to love.

Overly jealous, but the movie plays that hand too early by letting his best friend (Rodriguez) tell us that he was diagnosed as a psychotic recently.

So out goes the unlucky-in-love story as they must show that the guy is chemically imbalanced.

Larter and LeBlanc don't really generate a whole lot of chemistry together, so at the end of the day, so it boils down to a lot of wasted talent and potential.

There's too many good romantic comedies out there to waste your time on this one.

Your mileage of course can vary.

Found out after my disc arrived that this one is also available to stream on Amazon Prime for those with memberships.

Final Grade: D+

I See What You Did There..."Scents And Sensibility"

Scents and Sensibility (2011)

PG

Starring Ashley Williams, Marla Sokoloff, Nick Zano, Brad Johnson,

Directed by Brian Brough

The Story:

Elinor (Williams) and Marianne (Sokoloff) Dashwood's world upends when their father goes to jail and they must get real jobs to make ends meet and take care of their family.  Elinor ends up as a janitor and Marianne changes her last name to land a job as a copy editor.  While they try and make enough, naturally they run across a couple of men (Zano and Johnson) who are both irritating and attractive, at the same time. However, when Marianne's scented lotions that she makes on the side look to be profitable and get the girls out of debt, evil forces conspire to rob them of their chance to regain their status as upstanding citizens. Whatever will the girls do?

This is what you get when you take 2 parts Jane Austen and one part Lifetime channel and shake vigorously.

That said, it's not bad.  There are numerous Sense and Sensibility adaptations out there for your perusal.

This one is a fun re-imagining of the story, set in the modern day

It looks like a TV movie and feels like one, but that's fine.

Sometimes a good TV movie is exactly what you can be in the mood for.

Enough romance, drama and comedy to make it a light, fun affair without holding strict to the coattails of Jane Austen.

Available to stream instantly on Netflix as of this writing.

Final Grade: C+

Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: No need to buy it, but cute and harmless enough, could watch it again for background noise when you don't need to totally concentrate on a film.