In the same way that fried, sugar-dusted bread is sweet and cozy, so is The Other Zoey, a pasta-vanilla rom-com. At a historical presentation on Valentine’s Day, Zoey (Josephine Langford) pitches her software to connect suitable individuals rather than those yearning for romantic love, and we all know she’s in for a merry comeuppance.
What is The Other Zoey About?
The plot centers on Zoey Miller, a brilliant computer science major who isn’t interested in romantic relationships but whose world is turned upside down when Zach, a prominent college soccer player, suffers amnesia and mistakes her for his girlfriend.
She meets Zach’s cousin Miles, with whom she has a lot in common, shortly before she lets the truth slip. Since she still acts as if she is Zach’s girlfriend, she must face her anxieties and make an agonizing choice between the two men she loves.
Who is in the Cast of The Other Zoey?
Josephine Langford (After) is one of the Zoeys, Drew Starkey (Outer Banks) is Zach, and Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone) is Miles in the new romantic comedy.
Patrick Fabian (Better Call Saul, The Last Exorcism) and Heather Graham (Half Magic, The Hangover film series) round out the cast as supporting players.
The Other Zoey Where to Watch?
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Prime Video Original The Other Zoey Reviews
The new Prime Video original The Other Zoey is not romantic and has no dramatic tension. A computer science major who rejects romantic love as a capitalist ploy in favor of compatibility-fueled partnering is played by a very wooden Josephine Langford (from the After movies) in this film directed by Sara Zandieh.
The film initially pokes fun at romantic ideals through Zoey before diving headfirst into the genre. It’s as generic a romantic comedy as they come, as boring as a stale pizza and as formulaic as a high school course. Several classics of the genre, including Pretty Woman (1990), Notting Hill (1999), and Say Anything (1989), are acknowledged in this Matthew Tabak script. It admires them but knows it can never measure up and thus makes no attempt to do so.
The film follows Zoey, a nerdy computer programmer, as she learns that love doesn’t require intense compatibility but rather enjoyable companionship. You can’t even get a hit in life with the aid of that algorithm. Instead, it’s the indestructible affection you have for that person that drives you to take action against the odds. Although the film’s idea has great potential, it is never realized.
Never before have I witnessed such uninspired and sloppy lead performances and a love triangle. That’s saying a lot given the glut of mediocre “romances” being produced by the streamer industry. What about the book “A Tourist’s Guide to Love”?
Or Your Place or Mine, which destroyed for all-time the romantic flicks starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher? Or the disastrous film Persuasion with Dakota Johnson as the heroine of a retelling of a Jane Austen novel? You don’t, of course. Prime Video has generously included their original series The Other Zoey to this Netflix-only collection.
After collegiate soccer player Zach (Drew Starkey) accidentally strikes Zoey with the ball during practice, their paths will forever intersect.
Zach is hit by a car and immediately forgets about the previous two weeks when they run into each other again shortly after. His confusion arises since he has a girlfriend also called Zoey. On a separate track, our heroine connects well with Miles (Archie Renaux), a stranger who is as geeky as she is.
However, Zoey discovers that Miles is actually Zach’s cousin, an MIT student who is spending the weekend with them, before she can notify Zach or his parents about the identity mix-up. Zoey, certain that this is her best chance to get to know Miles, keeps the secret and, to make matters worse, decides to go on a ski trip with Zach’s family under the guise of “The Other Zoey.”
When the weekend retreat doesn’t go as planned, Zoey learns that she doesn’t have to agree with someone on everything to enjoy them. The old cliché that “opposites attract” is not without merit.
The picture adheres to every cliche of the romantic comedy genre; there’s a handsome lover, a protective brother, loving parents, a divorced single mother, and a sexy, supporting black best friend. Not a big surprise. Or, more generally, anyplace else.
The Other Zoey’s length of 90 minutes is one of the film’s best features. You may rest assured that it won’t last forever, no matter how stale or derivative it becomes. At its finest, it serves as pleasant background noise that is less taxing on the senses and the soul than the evening news.
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