Review of Love, Simon (2018) by Ken H — 19 Mar 2018

Cute movie only, with an emphasis on CUTE. A little too sugary sweet and manipulative for my tastes. The character Martin is so horrible that I can not even fathom the other kids giving him even a chance at being a member of their group.

And Simon shows an all too easily lost set of ethics towards his friends. I'm a gay adult now, and grew up in the sticks of southern Indiana, so I know what it's like to try and hide one's sexual orientation, but I just don't buy that a true friend would so easily con his friends.

So, to me, that aspect of the movie did not ring true. Also, although the scene with Josh Duhamel (the dad) was, once again, CUTE/SWEET, I thought that Duhamel's attempt at "crying" was just awful.

He's a very pretty man but not an overly great actor. This movie seems to be billed as a teen rom-com and that's what I'd say it comes off as successfully. Just kind of a teen fluff piece more apropos as an after-school movie.