I guess this is how romcoms are going to look like with millennials driving the bus. All the characters are likeable, all the boxes get ticked for inclusion and acceptance, and, strangely to me, a happy outcome isn't a matter of any kind of cosmic spark, but just settling for an approximation of 'right' because, everything is temporary and divorce and separation is normal and natural as well.

So as much as I enjoyed the story and the characters, I was left kind of empty at the end. Is this really all there is? It seems millennials think so. At least the ones making this sort of movie.

Part of the problem I think is that the story is told in a bubble. There is no outside world to speak of; everyone is financially ok. The only struggle is relationships in the sense of people swapping words and bodily fluids and gifts. My take on life is that meaningful relationships are forged out of common purpose: not just the big struggles for career and home and equity, but the quotidian stuff as well. Plus One doesn't just excise this as a matter of dramatic convenience, in the way Four Weddings and a Funeral does, it seems to excise this stuff because it doesn't see it as important as a value. And I think that is a real problem for how this movie is felt.