Gad tries to cover this gap with nervous energy, especially as Mary keeps crashing into his life, but it's not all that worrisome, or funny. ![]() But the emotional conflicts don't work, including how Gary is initially disgusted and horrified when he learns that she has eaten people before we also don't buy it when she's worried that he’s going to reveal her previously airtight secret to the world. Later on, Gary learns that Mary ate her husband, because she is in fact a werewolf.įorsythe is sentimental about the concept of a person having baggage going into a relationship, and using werewolves in a slightly playful rom-com formula is a compelling way to illustrate it. There’s a sweet recognition of one’s darkness here, as Mary also has a dearly departed spouse. He sees her kind soul, and gets to bare his own, talking about how he has struggled with parenting after the loss of his wife Lisa. Mary comes to his house to give his daughter Emma (Ariel Donoghue) a copy of Carl Sagan’s Contact, and to offer an apology. Here, it’s when advice columnist Mary ( Isla Fisher) smashes her car into Gary's ( Josh Gad). Aside from being the rare surprising moment of a car accident in film and TV, it’s a sharp introduction to the black comedy that comes next, and a funny way for two characters to meet. One of writer/director Abe Forsythe’s sharper ideas involves playing with the holy rom-com premise of the meet-cute. But while it becomes a type of free-for-all of contrived rom-com tropes, they don’t all come together in this quirky, sometimes cloying story about embracing someone's dark secret. In fact, this one might be more honest as its dark tone reckons with the baggage that people carry around with them. ![]() ![]() “Wolf Like Me” is a relationship story about man meets werewolf, and it's no less realistic than the fantastical elements in other less gory romantic comedies.
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