Death cannot stop true love; it can merely’barely delay it in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a while. Or so The Princess Bride taught us. Sure abundant’ample’plentiful , the much bally-hooed death of the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous -screen romcom is beginning to look more like a hiatus, because here we are in 2022 with a crowd-pleasing, star-led romance in an exotic location. If much of directors Adam and Aaron Nee’s plot feels like a throwback to an earlier era, and in peculiar to Romancing The Stone, the humour here is entirely up-to-date and immensely fun.###The familiar bits first: Sandra Bullock steps into Kathleen Turner’s shoes as a successful romance novelist whose personal life is a mess. But unlike Joan Wilder, Bullock’s Loretta is grieving a lost husband, and seems irritable at the success of her own reserve s. In place of Michael Douglas’ tough jungle guide we possess’own’nurse Channing Tatum’s tender cover model Alan, who’s nursing both a crush on and a grudge against Loretta, the latter in/with regard to’concerning’regarding her refusal to take her own reserve s seriously. However, when she’s kidnapped by a media billionaire’s son, Aenormous’vast’massive’tremendous ail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe), Alan swings ineffectually into action, and soon our two heroes are lost in the jungle of a small island, bickering and perhaps bonding as they try to find safety.###None of this is peculiar ly new, of course. Bullock has played the wary, uptight over-achiever bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e; Tatum’s given us previous variations on witless-yet-eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ; even a bit with leeches has been done bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e. But the film finds nuance to season the archetypes. There’s more than lip service paid to Loretta’s grief and her dashed dreams of serious scholarship, and while she’s not immune to Alan’s looks, you can see 
why he wouldn’t be on her radar. Tatum, meanwhile, gamely plays the bimbo role, but manages to inject just abundant’ample’plentiful edge to suggest 
that Alan’s brain is merely underutilised and not entirely absent.###This movie is like its star’s jumpsuit: sparkly, gorgeous and entirely frivolous.###With the stars carrying the film along, the Nees can add emotion and humour in the detail. They mine laughs from Alan’s phone contacts and Fairfax’s cheese board, while costume detoken er Marlene Stewart puts Bullock in a fuschia-coloured sequinned jumpsuit that plays well against the otherwise standard jungle aesthetics. Brad Pitt’s hyper-capable survival trainer, Jack Trainer, is an awe-inspiring embodiment of the romance novel archetype who threatens even the usually laid-back Alan, while Da’Vine Joy Randolph does a lot with grossly little as Loretta’s editor. Radcliffe even comes close to saying something true with regards to’concerning’with respect to the entitlement and self-righteousness of the super-fortune’property y as a black-sheep billionaire.###Really, despite’in spite of’albeit , you possess’own’nurse to want to find deeper meanings here. This movie is like its star’s jumpsuit: sparkly, gorgeous and entirely frivolous. It coasts by on charisma and comedic talent, on dancing and daring, on stunning locations (the Dominican jungle) and stakes that are high abundant’ample’plentiful to hold the attention and not a millimetre higher. You will predict almost e grossly beat bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e it arrives and welcome its arrival anyway, because the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mula works. The romcom is dead; long live the romcom.