Genre: Comedy
Description: A tinderbox of competition and resentments underneath
the façade of a picture-perfect couple is ignited when the husband’s professional
dreams come crashing down.
Review: It is not uncommon for a remake of a film to be given a slightly
different title. However, int the case of “The Roses”, the difference says it
all. Danny DeVito’s 1989 original was called “The War of the Roses”, and that
war, the (literal) divorce battle that took up most of the film, is merely the
dessert in this new version.
Some of the dialogue hits home. At one point, Andy Samberg’s character Barry says “When we were younger, I knew what she was going to say before she said it. Now I don’t know what she’s said after she’s said it.” This feels like something many couples might go though after being together for a long time.
Sometimes you really want a film to live up to your expectations. But a quarter of the way through “The Roses”, you know that’s not happening. It’s understandable that the film needs an introduction. But for at least half of the film, we watch a happy marriage. It’s just like any other romcom. Their marriage is then slowly falling apart, before it finally comes to an outrages divorce battle.
No complaints about Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, both great, together and apart. Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon, who play friends Barry and Amy, are give little funny material. A waste of comedic talent I would say.
It was still and entertaining film. This is mainly because of the two leads. I expected a more raw, tragicomic film about a broken marriage. But we got a pretty standard romcom with some dark humor at the end.
Rating: 3/ 5
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