Avis des critiques

Both leads are attractive, but their personal chemistry is nonexistent. Sweeney feels particularly uncalibrated for the film’s light, wacky tone, delivering every line with flattened portentousness even as she’s meant to be scatterbrained.

This spiritless romantic comedy exists mainly to get its wildly attractive leads down to – and even out of – their knickers as much as humanly possible within the confines of an R rating. That isn’t the worst excuse to make a movie, but for anyone on the hunt for a compelling love story or playful comedy, it’s a letdown.

The obvious chemistry and charm of Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell counts for a lot, yet not quite enough, in a romantic comedy severely lacking in both romance and comedy.

Perhaps the most refreshing thing about Anyone But You [is that] everybody gets to be horny. It seems like a miracle that a movie like this is even allowed to exist in this day and age.

Anyone but You is undoubtedly a cut above most rom-coms we’ve been served in recent years, and its many efforts to feel big and luxe do not go unnoticed. But it’s curiously unromantic and is only clever in fits and starts.

[Sweeney and Powell] never convincingly hate or even mildly dislike each other, there’s no bite there, it’s more like watching a happy couple playfully rag on each other for an audience and we’re never given enough of a reason as to why they wouldn’t be together from the outset.

The material eventually sinks, because the leads played by Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell are borderline terrible people much of the time, and the chemistry between these two gorgeous actors gets a C+ at best.

Whatever misgivings I have with the performers, they’re first and foremost failed by this material. The film is billed as an “edgy” R-rated comedy... [but] despite a brief sex scene to heat up the proceedings... Anyone But You‘s overall tameness means it won’t be edited too heavily for airplane viewing.

The passion that Sweeney and Powell exude injects a playfulness into the proceedings that adds tension to the twists and turns that their relationship takes. Anyone But You, though, has next to nothing to offer when anyone but [the two leads] are on screen together.

The movie is bad, but the chemistry: It’s good... Whatever it is here that works, it surely wasn’t anything in the script.

[Anyone but You is] as easygoing and disposable a rom-com as you’ll see. It’s almost unfair to expect Gluck and co. to deliver more than they’re going for here: hot people making moon-eyes at each other while wearing gorgeously tailored clothing against some of the most beautiful places on God’s green Earth. Just don’t expect it to rewrite the genre playbook.

[Anyone But You] has the charm, wit, swoony romance, and, most importantly, star chemistry that has been solely missing from recent lackluster entries in the genre.