Love, Rosie review: 'Appealing romantic tosh'
LILY COLLINS and Hunger Games actor Sam Claflin perform with great spark in a sweet likeable tale of childhood sweethearts thwarted by fate
Stars: Lily Collins, Sam Claflin
Director: Christian Ditter
Cert 15, 102mins
Love, Rosie is appealing romantic tosh based on the novel Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern.
It’s about a pair of childhood best pals, Rosie (Lily Collins) and Alex (Sam Claflin) meant to be together but destined to forever keep missing the moment.
Love, Rosie - Official Main Trailer
The story is familiar and formulaic as we follow Alex and Rosie over a decade or so from ill-fated school dance (when crossed wires results in the disguise of true feelings) through geographic separation (Alex goes to America), an unplanned pregnancy (Rosie becomes a single mother after a disastrous one-night stand) and parades of alternative partners, including Alex’s leggy American girlfriend (Tamsin Egerton).
None of it is especially original or surprising but it’s sweet, likeable and unpretentious and performed with great spark, especially by the winning Collins. It’s nicely photographed and a buoyant pop soundtrack including KT Tunstall and Lily Allen keep things fizzing along.
