8.1 stars.
I have so many positive comments and equally as many negative ones. I will start with the positive: this is a gripping romance based on a wonderful love that perished due to an extremely misguided opinion and a heartbreaking decision. The emotions are raw with Abby and Luke, but especially her mother Emily. "Marry Go Round" contains some of the most engrossing moments I've seen in a Hallmark film. For these aspects I must give very high praise.
Abby and Luke were engaged about 20 years in the past. Now Abby is engaged to Edward and they are ready to move to Paris to start their new lives together. Unfortunately their courtship takes a major detour due to unfinished business from her past with Luke.
Now for the negative: For the first half (I repeat: only for the first half) scenes fly by without explanations for specific occurrences, strange cuts, omitted essential portions of dialogue, strange lighting, jumps from one place to another without explanation and are they the same day, or did they skip to the next day? Why are they standing in an amusement park in the dark, then the next scene is like midday, same place, different day? The fiancé is obviously out of his element, he's not dressed like a Hallmark oriented sophisticated man, doesn't look the part, and she obviously has little passion for him, we can see that by the way they interact, and yet he's such an "understanding" fiancé, but good guys always comes in last. It is about as surreal as her still being married because the attorney forgot to file the annulment papers, and then the lead male decides he can't sign the papers? They were divorced 20 years ago, don't tell me there is a secret revelation behind his ghosting of her without a word...The first half of this movie is as implausible as flying pigs.
But then it all comes together somehow, and even though there are so many unexplainable oddities, the final hour is abundantly incomparable to the first, almost as if it's a different story. As a whole, I was intensely mesmerized by the performances and the writing of "Marry Go Round". So much potential was lost, I am perplexed.
One last critique: who came up with this ill-suited title?
I have so many positive comments and equally as many negative ones. I will start with the positive: this is a gripping romance based on a wonderful love that perished due to an extremely misguided opinion and a heartbreaking decision. The emotions are raw with Abby and Luke, but especially her mother Emily. "Marry Go Round" contains some of the most engrossing moments I've seen in a Hallmark film. For these aspects I must give very high praise.
Abby and Luke were engaged about 20 years in the past. Now Abby is engaged to Edward and they are ready to move to Paris to start their new lives together. Unfortunately their courtship takes a major detour due to unfinished business from her past with Luke.
Now for the negative: For the first half (I repeat: only for the first half) scenes fly by without explanations for specific occurrences, strange cuts, omitted essential portions of dialogue, strange lighting, jumps from one place to another without explanation and are they the same day, or did they skip to the next day? Why are they standing in an amusement park in the dark, then the next scene is like midday, same place, different day? The fiancé is obviously out of his element, he's not dressed like a Hallmark oriented sophisticated man, doesn't look the part, and she obviously has little passion for him, we can see that by the way they interact, and yet he's such an "understanding" fiancé, but good guys always comes in last. It is about as surreal as her still being married because the attorney forgot to file the annulment papers, and then the lead male decides he can't sign the papers? They were divorced 20 years ago, don't tell me there is a secret revelation behind his ghosting of her without a word...The first half of this movie is as implausible as flying pigs.
But then it all comes together somehow, and even though there are so many unexplainable oddities, the final hour is abundantly incomparable to the first, almost as if it's a different story. As a whole, I was intensely mesmerized by the performances and the writing of "Marry Go Round". So much potential was lost, I am perplexed.
One last critique: who came up with this ill-suited title?