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- 2018
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 45 m
- 2018
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 45 m
Summary New York assistants, Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), are used to going above and beyond for their high-powered (and highly demanding) bosses, Kristen (Lucy Liu) and Rick (Taye Diggs). But now they’re teaming up for the biggest projects of their young careers – getting their bosses to fall in love! Only time will tell whet...
Directed By: Claire Scanlon
Written By: Katie Silberman
- 2018
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 45 m
- 2018
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 45 m
Set It Up
62
7.6
Where to Watch
Summary New York assistants, Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), are used to going above and beyond for their high-powered (and highly demanding) bosses, Kristen (Lucy Liu) and Rick (Taye Diggs). But now they’re teaming up for the biggest projects of their young careers – getting their bosses to fall in love! Only time will tell whet...
Directed By: Claire Scanlon
Written By: Katie Silberman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
62
79% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
62
79% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Set It Up, from its title on down, is a fresh mixture of a reliable formula.
Set It Up is as formulaic as they come. That fact alone isn’t enough to avoid it on Netflix though. Most fans of this genre know what they are getting into, easily enjoying the charming displays of friendship, the few silly moments, and predictable ending.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
7.6
74% Positive
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
19% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
7% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
7.6
74% Positive
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
19% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
7% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Awesome chemistry between the leads and the casting was perfect. They turned an otherwise formulaic script and dull dialogue into something entertaining and quite endearing. An easy, light and fun film that is rewatchable.
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A woman (Katie Silberman) wrote Set It Up, a woman (Claire Scanlon) directed it, and a pair of smart, talented actresses (Zoey Deutch, Lucy Liu) carry it over the goal line. It's so lovely to see a rom-com from a distinctly female point of view, where the women involved are not portrayed as desperate and love-deprived, but rather as take-it-or-leave-it, the guy-better-get-with-my-program types who are driven, accomplished entrepreneurs and/or have actual career goals. And putting aside those goals for marriage or children isn't even on the table.
Do you guys realize how rare that is?
Lucy Liu's famed sports reporter Kirsten is smart, accomplished and badass. And of course, Liu knocks it out of the park. Comedy is in her DNA, but she finds and plays the real depth there too. Taye Diggs does his villain thing and Zoey Deutch and Glenn Powell kill it with a cap K as the parent-trapping assistants. They're Hanks-and-Ryan perfect together, showing a surprising amount of emotion and depth, as well as boatloads of smarts, charm and great comic timing. (Their real-life Instagram antics are adorable too.)
Silberman's script is tight as a drum -- every set-up is expertly paid off, there are real-life stakes and the complications keeping the main couple apart are actually believable.
Finally, if you'll notice, most of the male critics were significantly more unimpressed than the female ones. Sorry, fellas. Look at the movie's poster and look around you. Girls rule, boys drool.
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It's satisfying, for the most part—a solid romantic comedy with sharp dialogue, amusing characters, a soundtrack of well-worn feel-good hits, and a few surprises up its sleeve. Its only major flaw is an inability to imagine the bosses as richly as the leads.
While the plot is familiar, Katie Silberman’s witty script plays with expectations.
It’s the stars who have to work hardest to sell this kind of egg-white confection, and so they do. Having both charmed individually in previous vehicles, Deutch and Powell combine to winkingly wholesome effect, bringing just enough human self-awareness to their tidy back-and-forth banter to make it palatable.
You don’t need to be well-versed in rom-coms to know that, in the process, Harper and Charlie will ultimately fall into each other’s arms, but getting there proves to be a slog courtesy of screenwriter Katie Silberman’s talky, sitcom-ready dialogue and director Claire Scanlon’s ponderously uneven pacing.
The expectation that a female-written, female-directed effort would yield something refreshingly different is scotched within the first few minutes.
Perfecto balance entre comedia, romance y drama. Lejos de ser una obra maestra pero se pasa un gran tiempo
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"Set It Up" é um filme que segue a formula base do gênero. Se você não se preocupa com isso, não é de todo mal assistir, mas caso esteja saturado...
Por mais que haja uma produção, de forma geral, bem feita, o filme carece em diversos aspectos apenas em detrimento de uma trama fácil, o que o deixa incrivelmente vazio. Ainda há um esforço em alguns momentos de passar algo além do proposito entretenimento, mas os personagens são tão contraditórios e unidimensionais que de nada serve. O desenvolvimento é muito obvio, tampouco natural. As piadas são forçadíssimas, e não funcionam em 95% das vezes. Diversos diálogos seguem aquela linha "imprevisível/hostil" de quinta serie que não funciona por ser encaixada de maneira tão genérica. Ninguém é engraçado o tempo todo, mas o roteirista se esqueceu disso.
Como se já não bastasse, o proposito da briga - genérica do gênero - que incentiva o plot não faz tanto sentido na nossa visão. Sabemos que a protagonista idolatra a chefe, e os motivos até nos são ditos, mas nunca demonstrados. Tudo que vemos são chefes insuportáveis, unidimensionais e antipáticos. Ai que me vem o questionamento: essa importância dada aos mesmos realmente convence? Fora toda a explicação que a protagonista dá a chefe sobre ela ter manipulado tudo. Tipo??? Ela nem se quer precisava ter falada aquilo. Um simples "ouvi o que não devia na hora errada no lugar errado" bastaria. Simplesmente forçado ao máximo.
Enfim, no final das contas, não foi uma experiencia tão ruim, pois assisti com minha namorada, mas como uma obra solo... bem abaixo da própria media que os mesmos se inspiram tanto.
Audio: English, with Portuguese subtitles. Q60T TV Speakers
Quality: 4K SDR [Netflix]
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