Maybe it was just in my head but given the hype surrounding Anyone but you (however slight) I should have watched this sooner then I actually did, if memory serves at the time of production Sydney Sweeney was an ‘it girl’. It should also be noted that according to IMDB Anyone but You has surpassed Romeo + Juliet (1996) as the highest-grossing Shakespeare adaptation (excluding the Lion King films, which were based on Hamlet).

As far as movies go Anybody But You certainly is a watchable movie and I’ll go on record as saying that comedy were the main premise of the joke is awkward for the sake of being awkward only works within the confines of a romantic comedy. Now it might be my inner “old cynical bastard” but Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell really didn’t do enough to make me care if Ben and “Bea” got together by the end of the movie and the filmmakers certainly didn’t earn the big romantic gesture in the third act. They did have a decent enough supporting cast with the likes of Bryan Brown, Michelle Hurd and Rachel Griffiths. I was a little surprised that Dermot Mulroney popped up in this one.