"When we first met" review (Netflix): the surprising and touching romantic comedy

When we first met, the new American romantic comedy available on Netflix has arrived. A touching and light comedy that will bring out your blue flower side.

The happy medium between classicism…

When we first met is the story of Noah, a desperate young bachelor who missed his chance with the woman of his life. classic. But full of remorse, he will drown his grief in liquor, to the point of hoping for only one thing: to go back to alter the course of time, and have his second chance. Again, classic. Thanks to a small dose of unexplained magic, he will really have his second chance by returning to that famous Halloween day 2014, the opportunity to finally understand what went wrong. In short, you will understand, the scenario is classic.

In this film, we like to discover the light and fun atmosphere. We are also delighted to see that the comic aspect does not take over, leaving the greatest room for expression to the scenario and rather sympathetic characters. What's nice about When we first met is that you let yourself be carried away by the film, with the feeling of being literally taken away by the story. You will tell us: "yes, but if we get carried it is not necessarily a good thing". As a rule, this is rather true. But here, we let ourselves be carried away and then comes the disturbing element that makes us understand with sweetness that all this is only illusion: we do not go where we wanted, but where the screenwriter Ary Sandel wanted. The unpredictable, the touch that was needed to this film to hit the mark.

… and the touching unpredictability

If there's one adjective we didn't think we could attribute to an Adam DeVine role, it's "endearing." And yet. That's right, we saw him in the role of the immature adult alongside Zac Efron in Out of Control, or in the grotesque spy with Game over, man, another Netflix original film. But in the role of the romantic ready to do anything to make happy the one who loves him, we do not expect it. He proves us the opposite in When we first met, with an interpretation and a role as unexpected as it is moving. But we do not forget to salute the performance of the other actors of the film. We think of Alexandra Daddario, Shelley Hennig and the pleasant surprise of the cast: Andrew Bachelor. You probably know him under the pseudonym KingBach, the influencer formerly "Vineur" very famous.

We told you earlier that the scenario was classic, it's true. But we can not boast of having seen the turn taken by the frame coming. It must be admitted – not without pain – that we were surprised by the evolution of history. And that's a great pleasure, since the characteristic of romantic comedies is usually to be very predictable. Here, the story settles quietly, we begin to build our first sketches of the end of the film, and we are surprised. EN-FIN a romantic comedy that takes us further than the classic scenario. We don't tell you more, we let the magic of the film work, and we challenge you to guess the end.  

To conclude, it's very simple: we ramble. If comedy works so well, it is thanks to a tasty marriage between the classic foundations of romanticism and the unexpected of the "science fiction" side. And all this, with touching characters, and some well-placed comic processes.  

When we first met trailer: