The Other Zoey

This wonder is available to prime subscribers right now. Don’t rush. It’s just for romcom addicts. It does not have audio description, but is so surface level that I have to grade it, because calling this film “unwatchable” is insulting your intelligence. Would I have preferred to watch this with audio description? Absolutely. Am I going to tell you I couldn’t follow this? No.

Zoey is an outsider. She likes books. She isn’t dating anyone. In walks in the hottest guy in school to her bookstore, because those still exist, and he leaves without taking his credit card. So, he leaves, she tries to hand him his credit card, he gets struck by a car, and has convenient memory loss. When he wakes up, he becomes convinced that Zoey is his girlfriend, mainly because he told his family he was dating a girl named Zoey, that they haven’t met. As you might presume, there is… the other Zoey. And she isn’t taking this lying down.

So, it’s While You Were Sleeping, with a twist. This is such a generic rom com with such a basic cast that it could have been written by AI. It’s also neither bad nor good. It’s like when your child hands you a page from the coloring book, and they colored perfectly in all the lines, and the things are the colors they should be. no purple trees. It’s fine. As a parent, you are just proud your child managed to accomplish this feat. The rest of the world can’t appreciate this feat, but you can. Well, this film is that piece of art, and we are the rest of the world that just sees a pre drawn set of lines that were colored in nicely, but to call it art… that is a stretch. But, there is something to following a formula to a point, and a lot of romantic comedies do just that. That’s kinda Hallmark’s thing nowadays.

Since it lacks audio description, we never know what anyone looks like, or what they are wearing, where we are, when people enter or exit a scene, who is in frame, and a myriad of details. but, there wasn’t a single moment where I got lost, or didn’t understand what was happening. That’s how basic this film is. It is the very definition of average, and thus it gets the most average grade.

Final Grade: C

I do occasionally grade a film without audio description. I do believe anyone technically *can* follow this plot, though it is still your choice not to due to lack of accessibility.

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