Love the Coopers

What's immensely disappointing about Love the Coopers is that when once I first meet up with all of these skewed, integrated storylines, I was really enjoying them and really interested where they were and where they were going. Unfortunately, the more time I was spending with the Coopers, the more I started to become bummed. Most of them just weren't very 3-dimensional (mostly referring to Keaton and Goodman's Charlotte and Sam). It's brought about that they're marriage is on the rocks but it nearly doesn't give any evidence or flashbacks despite doing so with Helms's Hank, Tomei's Emma, and Wilde's Elanor, even at one point a janitor at a mall. And it does a great job doing so with those characters but when we're talking about the two main characters who debatably are driving the plot, we need some flashbacks about them. That could've just been one flaw but unfortunately when the stories come together, it manages somehow to become even more forced. Please note that this is usually one of my favorite types of movies (heartwarming family comedy) but this was just way too forced and not 3-dimensional. Not to mention a twist that would've been really adorable but literally makes no sense and wasn't in keeping with the movie whatsoever. But Love the Coopers is not without it's bright spots. At the beginning it was really fun, and the way it wrapped up really did bring joy to me and there's so many heartwarming lines ("you can't schedule happiness", "the past, present, and future all came together") that make me wish I liked the movie much more. And my personal favorite part of the movie was the couple who kept making out (Timothee Chamalet's Charlie and I forgot the girl's name)! I really wish that those two characters was the movie's central focus.