SAY WHEN (LAGGIES)

Basically…

28-year old free spirit Megan (Keira Knightly) panics when her boyfriend proposes. Bored of life and scared to grow up she starts hanging out with a group of teenagers and hiding in 16-year old Annika’s (Chloe Grace Mortez) home.

In other words…

An early mid-life crisis with a lot of jaw.

The main men and leading ladies…

Keira Knightley is all jaw and it’s increasingly distracting as the story unfolds. It’s strange and unnerving to see Sam Rockwell (Craig) as a father of a teenager and surely there’s only so long Mortez can keep playing a schoolgirl?

In the chair…

Director of Touchy Feely, Your Sister’s Sister and Humpday Lynn Shelton has stuck to the light indie flicks. Say When - or Laggies as it’s called out with the UK - doesn't really break that mould much. 

So…?

Considering how many costume and period dramas Knightley has done over the years this is a strangely natural role for her as she reverts back to her Bend It Like Beckham days. And despite Mortez being a tad too confident for the role she portrays her secret insecurities well. The age gap between the pair is also believable but the chemistry between Megan and Craig not so. Rockwell possesses the same suave arrogance he always does so it’s hard to knock him but that’s where the praise ends. This is a whole load of nothing. It’s predictable, isn't funny and doesn't really go anywhere. It never settles on a tone and leaves you feeling hollow and unsatisfied. It's so meh it's barely worth putting on in the background. 

Worth the money?

I hope that was a sarcastic question.