A Nice Girl Like You

You need to decide! It’s me or the porn!

Year Released: 2020

Director: Chris and Nick Riedell

Cast: Lucy Hale, Leonidas Gulaptis, Mindy Cohn, Adhir Kalyan and Jackie Cruz

So my first review of 2021 sees me look at a genre that I don’t normally watch, comedy. I’m not a massive fan of the genre as there aren’t that many genuinely funny movies of the recent past. In the same way that I don’t find most horrors scary, I struggle with comedies being funny. Add onto that and the fact it’s got Lucy Hale in it, makes me pessimistic ahead of ‘A Nice Girl Like You’.

Lucy Hale is one of those actresses that is exceptionally likeable and potentially had a big future ahead of them, but chooses to fill their earlier career with complete and utter trash. For example, she was the best part about last year’s ‘Fantasy Island’, but that’s like saying ‘at least I lost weight’ if you lose a leg. It doesn’t mean a lot.

Hopefully, a change away from her usual genre choice of horror will

Plot

After she catches her boyfriend watching porn, Lucy (Hale), who struggles to get excited by sex, decides to try to be more open-minded about sexual experiences and ideas. She writes a bucket-list of sexual things she wants to experience, soon meeting Grant (Gulaptis).

The pair hit it off, and go on a few dates, but she is still trying to experience things that are sexually provocative and whilst it is opening up Lucy to new opportunities, it might make Grant uneasy.

So was being pessimistic justified?

“A Nice Girl Like You” has some fairly average reviews online and I can see why most wouldn’t like it…..and for once, when I use to phrase “I can see why most”, I actually one of the most. “A Nice Girl Like You” is not a good film. If a film of this variety came out in the same sort of era as movies such as “There’s Something About Mary”, “American Pie” or “Say it Ain’t So”, then may it would have worked, but now we’re in the twenties and it just doesn’t.

Everything about this movie feels dated. This is a late-90s/early-2000s movie that was made twenty years too late. Even though it is less than a year old, everything feels stale and predictable. It feels like I’ve seen this movie umpteen times before, near enough every other time being better than this. You could write down story elements before watching, and you’d be fairly accurate with your predictions.

Lucy Hale is what you’d expect, a likeable lead without ever really excelling, but other than that the cast feels very wooden. Gulaptis looks the part of the male love interest, but there isn’t really anything there that feels like natural chemistry between the two. Lucy is the only character that isn’t one dimensional, and even then she only barely makes it out of that territory.

This was a completely forgettable movie and by the end of 2021, I’ll be browsing the site for films I’ve reviewed and will have forgotten all about this.

Summary

Forgettable movie that is predictable and lacklustre, “A Nice Girl Like You” is a movie that is less than a year old (and the time of writing), and yet feels like it feels horrendously out-dated.

Lucy Hale is decent enough in the lead role, but she is surrounded by a largely wooden cast that has precisely zero chemistry with her, thus continuing her run of not making good movies.

“A Nice Girl Like You” is available to rent on Amazon Prime and iTunes.