No Plans To See This One
‘MAGGIE’S PLAN’ TRAILER REVIEW BY METRO CREW
Graduate school advisor Maggie (Greta Gerwig) has a meet-cute with John (Ethan Hawke), a professor and novelist. They begin an affair, and things seemingly work out for Maggie in the way they rarely do for cinematic mistresses: He leaves his wife (Julianne Moore). Only, fast-forward three years, and Maggie finds herself falling out of love with John. Her solution? Give him back to his ex-wife. While we agree that this movie has top-tier talent, we can’t help but feel it looks a little dull. Maggie’s Plan opens at Kahala Theatre June 10.
JAIMIE: I wasn’t sure where that trailer was going, and I’m still not sure what the point of the movie is. Everything is so contrived and trivial and awful. What a waste of perfectly good talent. How sad.
JAMES: This is one of those movies where all the motives and manipulations are transparent to everyone but the three main leads. And the audience will have to sit through it all, waiting for them to figure things out. However, Gerwig and Hawke have good track records in choosing interesting projects. So they may just pull it off.
PAIGE: Let’s think about it this way: Maybe, just maybe, the problem is him, and it’d be better if all these women just moved the hell on with their lives and found nicer, better boyfriends who aren’t Ethan Hawke, who just sadly kind of always looks like a big douche face.
NICOLE: I love Julianne Moore, I really do. But I don’t think I can bear to watch this. The way they break it down by chapters makes it that much more predictable, I think.
CHRISTINA: The plot seems a little hard to believe. Who would try to set her boyfriend up with his ex, even if she didn’t want to be with him anymore — and more so, what ex-wife would agree to conspiring with the woman her ex-husband cheated with?
NICOLE: You said wife and ex so many times that I got confused. Was I the only one that was confused and had to re-watch the trailer?
CHRISTINA: I also got a little confused — because I sort of lost interest midway through. It seemed, at first, like a movie I’d be into, but then I don’t know, something about the tone just seemed … off? Also, when they are trying to illustrate that she is falling out of love with him, all they show is him not wanting her to read his horoscope — that is ridiculous grounds for a breakup.
