Marry Me Again? (ملصق فيلم البعض لا يذهب للمأذون مرتين/Al-Baadh La Yathhab Lil Maathoun Marratain) is a Arabic comedy movie directed by Ahmed El Gendy, written by Youssef Emad and Ayman Wattar, and stars Karim Abdul Aziz, Dina El-Sherbiny, Maged El Kedwany, Bassel Alzaro and Amr Abdulgalil, alongside other cast members. The movie has a runtime of 99 minutes.
Netflix’s descriptuon of the movie reads:
When a technical error annuls the union of all married couples in Egypt, a journalist sets out to investigate rising marital issues— including his own.
– Marry Me Again Review Does Not Contain Spoilers –
I don’t understand Marry Me Again. The movie is a string of things happening without much reason or necessity. It’s all in the name of comedy, but the things that happen in the movie are just so out of the world and utterly meaningless that finding anything to laugh at feels like a fool’s errand. Or, better yet, you feel stupid for even trying to find the humour.
Most of the movie is bland and directionless. The creators simply strung together a bunch of stuff that makes the loudest noise and hoped that the sheer volume and extent of the situations would confuse the audience to start laughing. Instead, you are left confused and, frankly, a little insulted that the creators would think that this is what comedy entails.
I think the biggest problem is that you don’t know what is happening. I tried to find a flow with the narrative and understand what the story might be. But there is literally nothing here that would make you sit up and take notice. Rather, you start to count the minutes after the first 15 so that there is an end to this debacle.
The movie is loud and annoying without any substance, and the utter lack of a storyline honestly makes you wonder about the audacity of the film. What are we supposed to watch here? The punchlines (if you can call them that) are just so crude and infantile that you feel dumb just watching it. For example, in one scene, Khaled goes to interview a guy who has 23 wives. You can see the “jokes” that can come out of such a situation, but the way that the guy describes why he has so many wives only make you gag instead of inducing any sort of laughter.
It’s just not funny. I don’t know whether there is a language barrier here or what, but regardless, the jokes are unfunny and, most of the time, unkind. They will make you wonder whether this is what is considered funny nowadays – insulting people and making a mockery out of serious issues.
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The core storyline of Marry Me Again is that a database goes down and deletes all records of married couples in Egypt. You’d expect them to have a physical copy of everyone’s marriage certificate to bypass this exact issue, but the movie asks us to suspend so much of our disbelief that we have to believe that everyone in Egypt is now single. On top of that, everyone just celebrates at the news. You’d expect this would be a horrible issue for the officials, but like, yeah, it’s cool. Just start dating again; who cares about the kids, right?
I don’t get it, guys. I really don’t. Like, how is this funny? Sure, not everything has to adhere to reality. But if it’s not a supernatural, sci-fi or similar media piece, then the audience shouldn’t be expected to severe all their ties to reality. If anything, everyday life has everything you need to give us a good chuckle or two. I just don’t understand the point of this movie; it’s an utterly frustrating watch.
Summing Up: Marry Me Again
I don’t know what to say… Marry Me Again is just such a stupid movie that doesn’t make you laugh in any way. It’s lazy and tries to be the loudest in the room to be heard but just bores you to death instead.
Marry Me Again is streaming on Netflix.
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