Genie (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 22 Nov 2023
• Country: United States, United Kingdom
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24429218/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/genie
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 1080p
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
• Runtime: min
• Writer: Richard Curtis
• Director: Sam Boyd
• Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Alan Cumming, Luis Guzmán
• Keywords: christmas,

	6.0/10
	33% – Critics
	66% – Audience

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Genie

Writer Richard Curtis reimagines his 1991 BBC television movie Bernard and the Genie. It is as unimaginative as the title Genie.

Overworked and underappreciated Bernard (Paapa Essiedu) misses his daughter’s birthday. His heartless boss Oliver Flaxman (Alan Cumming) asks him to work late at the last minute.

Not only does he miss her birthday, he does not even get the present she wants. It is the final straw for his wife. She leaves Bernard.

A distraught Bernard rubs an old jewellery box and out pops genie Flora (Melissa McCarthy) who can grant Bernard an unlimited number of wishes.

He uses Flora to get his family back together. While Flora holed up in that box for 2000 years takes in the modern world. It consists of pizza and Tom Cruise movies.

While Bernard and the Genie was full of low key charm and took potshots at commercialism. (Bernard was played by Alan Cumming.)

Genie struggles with an actual plot, humour and charm. The premise of the movie and the wishes are wasted.

You would be better off tracking down the television movie that had Lenny Henry as the Genie.

Writers must believe we are morons!

I get that the husband is a workaholic loser and so the wife needs some ‘space’ away from him. Enter Melissa Genie granting him ‘unlimited’ wishes. Wrong! So nonsensical since he now has the power to pretty much change the world i.e. Create a trillioni dollar foundations for every disease known to man! Maybe win some huge state lotteries and donate the cash??? He has a couple of final wishes, maybe use them for family health crisis, kid’s education, money to guarantee the families financial future (especially since he is newly unemployed). Nope forget any such things all of us might well do. Why insure your kids education and family’s health and security when you can use final wises to get a restaurant table and then to order a peanut butter sandwich when it is not on the menu? Worst writing ever! None of this is any sort of spoiler to the main story, wife/husband/kid and we all know how that will end in all the nice family comedies.

Don’t. Just Don’t

Everyone who left a 10/10 review is lying. If I had an 1 hour and 33 minutes to live, I would watch this movie again because it would feel like an eternity.

The main character is the real villain of this movie. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. He’s selfish, greedy, and ridiculously stupid. Ironically, the genie thanks him for not being any of these at the end of the film.

This film felt like the writers and the director had no idea which direction they wanted to go in. They kept throwing in random scenes of the genie being sad with no context as to why. Not once does she bring up how lonely she is or how trapped she is. They randomly threw the Mona Lisa painting in the film, which mad absolutely no sense. It just seemed they wanted to throw a scene in there that would somewhat relate to the original movie. I don’t think the director even knew why he had that scene in there. He may have been high. Who knows.

The saddest part of this whole movie is that Melissa McCarthy couldn’t even carry this movie. I’m pretty sure the only reason she was in this film is because the producers used all their money to have her star in it which is why there are so many unknown actors in this film.

TLDR; This movie was awful. I wanted to punch the main character in the face the entire time. Wishes wasted at the end for a peanut butter sandwich (NOT EVEN JELLY WITH IT). My blind cat had to leave halfway through because she couldn’t bear to watch anymore of this. Don’t waste your time. Watch elf instead.