Roy Orbison crooning “Pretty Woman” over the opening titles of Todd Strauss-Schulson’s Isn’t It Romantic is just the first of many touches meant to signify how steeped in the world of romantic comedies the film and its world are. In practice, though, that choice is just a foreboding clue about what’s to come. Strauss-Schulson and screenwriters Erin Cardillo, Dana Fox and Katie Silberman want you to think they’re ripping the genre open and letting you see the gears but, really, they’re content to let those gears do the work for them without adding anything new...
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