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‘Oh, Hi!’ Review: A Terrific Cast Led by Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman Can Barely Keep a Modern-Day ‘Misery’ Afloat
Increasingly exhausting and contrived, Sophie Brooks’ contemporary 'situationship' comedy eventually runs out of steam.
In this elongated flashback, we follow Iris and her boyfriend Isaac (an enchanting Logan Lerman) as they happily drive through picturesque winding roads of New York State, blissfully singing Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers’ “Islands in the Stream.” Gorgeous bodies of water in spring time, plenty of sunshine, cinematic-looking red barns and of course farm stands that sell in-season strawberries. Serving up various genuine scenes between the duo who are intensely into each other, Brooks has a few amusing lines under her belt, like “I thrive on missionary,” when they discuss their preferred sex positions, upon deciding to try some of the kinky tools they find inside a closet. There are some smart scenes here where Brooks shows her keenly observant eye, especially when Iris and Max discuss the modern-day phenomenon of the Brooklyn-bred “soft boys”— men who want all the good things a stable relationship brings, from sex to secure intimacy, without making a real commitment to it.
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