Wasn't It Romantic

Isn't It Romantic stars Rebel Wilson who plays Natalie, the anti Cupid of New York. Natalie dismisses all love and happiness even when the love of her life Josh, her coworker, is right in front of her. She is so focused on getting out of love that she doesn't realize the love around her and always believing and accepting the worst in any situation.

However, all of this changes when Natalie gets robbed and is thrown to the ground pathetically. Her fight against her robber entertainingly fails. The next minute Natalie wakes up to find herself in a rom-com world filled with cliches at literally every corner. Trashy New York City turns into a sunny flower filled paradise. Not only does New York change, her whole life is flipped. Natalie's apartment turns from a dirty garage into a luscious palace, her office turns from The Office to high end modern work place, and her uncaring neighbor turns into her eager gay best friend. It seems that Natalie has everything she could ever want, but to Natalie shes living in a PG-13 hell.
After true loves kiss, Natalie wakes up in the hospital again to find her self back in the trashy New York City that she loves. She find everything back to normal and is more than excited. The comedic sense of the movie enhances the idea of love through flash mobs and true self realization, but it also shows that life isn't all glitz and glamour. No one can have the perfect life, but it's not reason to be bitter. It emphasizes that if one looks for happiness one will find it. 

Though Natalie is openly the least romantic person alive, at the beginning Natalie is seen as a young girl watching Pretty Women who actually believes in love. Though, this all comes to a end when her mother dismisses her thoughts of love. Her mother says that no one could ever love someone who looked like them. This starts Natalie on her path to becoming a realistic romantic.

By the end of the movie, Natalie's journey reinforces our understanding that you can't love others before you love yourself. For Natalie, she's grown up thinking she would never be good enough for love because of the way she looked. But once Natalie has developed a love for herself and her work she realizes how much love she does have and how oblivious shes been. This then leads to the cliche slow motion run to stop the wedding of her true love Josh. Of course Josh accepts and Natalie's cliche world ends in a kiss.