On the brink of losing her childhood home, a desperate woman agrees to date a wealthy couple's introverted and awkward 19-year-old son. However, he proves to be more of a challenge than she expected, and time is running out before she loses it all.
No Hard Feelings is the very definition of a fun little film that is a nice throwback to the raunchy films of the 2000s. While No Hard Feelings might not be the most hilarious raunchy comedy in the world, it more then makes up for that with tons of elements and performances that are truly a blast of fun.
Jennifer Lawrence is what sells this film by far and is the film's strongest part about it. Jennifer Lawrence hasn't done a comedic role in awhile (we do not talk about Don't Look Up) and she still is genuinely hilarious. What's a bit surprising to me is that the film actually has a lot of heart, we get a lot more than surface level information about Jennifer Lawrence's character. Which is typically not something you usually get with raunchy comedies.
Andrew Barth Feldman is also quite fantastic as well, his performance really blends well with Jennifer Lawrence and the two have really strong chemistry together, Feldman is also quite entertaining there's tons of jokes here that he delivered really well plus having his own style to them as well. A standout scene is Feldman singing Maneater (1982) by the American duo Hall & Oats, wonderful use of the song and is a scene that really shocked me mainly because of how great and touching it really was.
The writing is definitely surprising, while not every single joke lands perfectly as I said earlier there's a huge amount of heart in the film that was not really expected. But it gives the film the extra push it needs to really standout, plus the many jokes that do land are genuinely hilarious. Most of all what makes the film work is just how fun it really is. There's this whole element of after the film ends you and your friends talk about which scene you loved the most and list your favorite hilarious moments. That's captured quite well here and it's truly a beautiful thing to see.
Overall No Hard Feelings is a very straight to the point and a really fun raunchy comedy that isn't just a throwback film but stands alongside the rest of the films of the genre, I can easily see this one become sort of a classic that gets talked about on social media very often. Check this one out!
No Hard Feelings is available in theaters.
8/10 B+
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