Like many art forms, if movies centre on the willing suspension of disbelief, along comes The Idea Of You, for which the viewer is expected to buy into a forty-year-old 'ordinary' divorced art-gallery-owning mother (Anne Hathaway) having a wild romance with a twenty-four-year-old goofy lead singer of a global hit boyband (rising star Nicholas Galitzine), a scenario which would test even the most die-hard rom-com fan - they even get to kiss, in the rain, in Paris. An actress of Hathaway's calibre elevates the generally limp material (her reaction to a horde of screaming fans is spot-on), Galatzine throws his industrial-strength charm and sensitivity at the screen and sings quite well in the bland concert/recording sequences, and the pair work well together. Filmed in a slightly less-glossy style than its counterparts and with some longer scenes, the age-gap adds a different dimension than most examples of the genre, but mostly, this is pleasantly-delivered if utterly silly romantic-fantasy fare.
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