WHEN LOVE HAPPENS AGAIN MOVIE REVIEW (2016)

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Hello my lovelies,
And here we are again today, doing what we know how best to do (or atleast try to do)..LOL. My darlings! Hope we are all doing great. So, today’s movie really excites me and I don’t know why..am feeling like a kid that was just handed the keys to a candy shop..yeah, y’all are getting the picture abi??? Okay, that’s enough jonzing for one post, let’s get down to business now.
This film is a sequel to “when love happens”, both produced and directed by Seyi Babatope. It’s a romantic-comedy that centres on trust in relationships through the eyes of two urban couples. Here, the love story of Mo and Tobe continues, only this time there is an emotional hiccup.  This movie stars actors such as Weruche Opia, Oreka Godis,  Enyinna Nwigwe, Udoka  Onyeka, Diana Yekini, Stanley Chibunna(funnybone) amongst others. Udoka Onyeka comes back as Tobe who was played by Gideon Okeke previously.
Let me start by giving all thumbs up to the writer for this project. I enjoyed every conversation. It was witty, playful, in sync, realistic, artistic and very well played out. Especially those between Mo and Seju, in the scene where Mo said she trust God to keep Tobe away from cheating cos men are humans and are bound to make mistakes but God doesn’t(paraphrasing now) and also at the end, when Tade told Tobe his lucky to have come. Those where really smart lines. It was a delight for me. Oreka Godis stunned me in this film, as in ehhhhhh, she was carrying on like she was born to act, like it’s in her DNA, like she was balling. I mean, she was so elegant and tasteful in her interpretation. I think she would be spotted out for this project.. Yeah, she was that good. Her wardrobe too was amazing.
The pictures were awesome, great shots, fantastic locations. The director of photography and production designer did a detailed and professional work.The soundtracks used were great and original.
I loved the easy feel this movie had, it may come off to some people as cliché but I think it was well done. The scene where Seju confronts Zainab’s boyfriend and then goes back to admire her with Mo was just hilarious. I commend the director for such relaxed interpretation and blocking. I mean, with the current strife in the country now, we need all the chill we can get.
On the flip side now, the plot in this film was weak. The voice over used in the scene where Tobe was reading comments from the blog was rather tacky, the write ups would have sufficed. Also, at the ending, Mo could have been a little more excited to see her man who flew across the world to see her. We could notice the inconsistency in funny bone’s lines when he calls himself the king of hip pop and highlife in one scene and king of hip pop and r’n’b in another, that was silly even though funny bone brought his A-game. The airport scene where Mo and Seju arrived DC was amazingly noisy and disturbing. Tobe and Enyinna travel to another country without international passports?? Hmm, I tire.  Then to the denouement, mehn, I will confess..i was pained. That was not only cheesy (and I don’t mind that in a good way), it was just flat and lame. All that hassle and then that??? c’mon!
All in all, it was a wonderful film guys, you should go see it.
I give it 5/10.

Enjoy

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