Date with Love (2016) Shenae Grimes-Beech, Andrew W. Walker, Bailee Madison, Quinn Lord, Larissa Albuquerque, Andrea Brooks Movie Review

Date with Love (2016)   3/53/53/53/53/5


Shenae Grimes-Beech in Date with Love (2016)

A Hallmark Promposal

Prom is coming and David (Quinn Lord - Call Me Mrs. Miracle) is desperate to make his mark on school before it is too late, unfortunately every girl he has asked has turned him down. Everyone that is except for his best friend, Heidi (Bailee Madison - Holiday Joy), who he has known since they were little and asking her doesn't even cross his mind. It is why David decides to shoot an online promposal video asking movie star, Alex (Shenae Grimes-Beech - Christmas Incorporated), to be his prom date. When Alex suffers another humiliating break-up with a movie star, and with some prompting from her friend, decides to accept the promposal as it will be good publicity. Things take a surprising turn when trying to evade the swarming paparazzi Alex meets Mr. Walsh (Andrew W. Walker - Snowed-Inn Christmas), David and Heidi's handsome English teacher.

"Date with Love" is Hallmark hitting you with a two for the price of one set up; on one hand we have the grown up romance between a celebrity and a teacher and then on the other the high school student oblivious to the fact that his best friend has a crush on him. And so yes that does mean that for many a person "Date with Love" is a no brainer movie, a Hallmark movie you put on not because you want to watch a movie which will challenge you but because you want something as easy on your eyes as it is on your mind, well that is if you don't find Hallmark romantic comedies groan inducing.

Andrew W. Walker in Date with Love (2016)

What that really means is that "Date with Love" ends up all about the appeal of the actors and both Shenae Grimes-Beech and Andrew W. Walker have that easy on the eyes appeal. What they also have is some Hallmark romantic comedy chemistry which means they spark off of each other nicely especially during the early antagonistic stage of their relationship. But what "Date with Love" also has is Bailee Madison playing the ignored best friend who pretends to hate prom because she doesn't want to be embarrassed etc, a character which has been around since at least my teens and the John Hughes movies of the 80s. And Madison plays it in a cute manner which works nicely alongside the central romantic storyline.

What this all boils down to is that unsurprisingly "Date with Love" is a movie built on the familiar so that it is an easy to watch, lazy afternoon distraction. And in truth it succeeds as whilst not one of those Hallmark romantic comedies you will find yourself desperate to watch again it is an enjoyable distraction with nice casting.


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