Spin me round

Year of release : 2022

 

Run time : 1h44min

 

Genre : Comedy ?

 

Cast : Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Tricia Helfer

 

 

Amber wins an all expenses paid trip to Italy,on her company's behalf, due to her working there for 9 years.

 

Her best friend is happy for her and thinks she's gonna find love there,and come back with a man.

 

In Italy,she befriends a woman who lost her luggage( the plane company did), and she offers to give her some clothes. The woman takes her up on that offer (just that she seems a bit bigger than her,but whatever ) and goes through her closet,almost taking all of her clothes ( she even takes her sheer lingerie( which,if you look at it,there's no way it fits her),just in case,although she's married-eye roll-,and even tries to take her only jacket. No good deed..)

Again,this woman tells her she's definitely gonna find love,'cause she can sense these things..sure,if you say so..

 

In Italy,they discover things aren't as advertised,as the beautiful hotel in the ad is not for them,but a pretty ugly one, which's rooms don't lock up,and are infested with termites.

 

They have to take these cooking courses ( I don't know why,because as I recall Amber was not a chef / cook at the company), and they meet the restaurant chain's wealthy owner.

 

The moment he sees her, the owner, Nick, says to his assistant that Amber looks like his sister. So, he takes her out a few times (she finds out his sister died the year before,and him wanting to date a woman looking like his sister is not weird at all !eye roll).

 

After a weird party he takes her to ( the wife of his brother goes to the bathroom in front of her. I'm not kidding ) where she ends up almost getting beaten by the jealous girlfriend of Nick's nephew,as they all dance with her,acting weird ( Nick's brother, nephew..) Nick's interest in her dies,and she realizes he uses the same ammo he used with her to date all the other women in the programme.

 

That's when Amber realizes all the participants are women and the two men there have women names , Dana and Fran! She starts thinking this is some dark business as the women start getting sick and disappearing.

 

I personally didn't find the movie funny,I don't remember laughing. The woman borrowing her clothes got annoying fast,as she was the kind of person who after being helped ended up bitchy.

 

About halfway through,the movie turned into a thriller of sorts,but at that moment they already lost me with the girl on girl action they insert in every Hollywood movie lately,that you can't watch a movie without checking "the list" - diversity,representation-.. as it's just annoying ,and it takes the fun out of every movie.

 

The actors were fine,but that's pretty much it.

 

The movie is streaming on AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, DirecTv,and is for rent or sale on Amazon, Apple, Vudu.

 

Rating : Could have been a contender !