No Hard Feelings * * ½

The funniest thing about this film isn't so much Ha Ha! as weird.  It seems like only yesterday that Jennifer Lawrence was playing a teenager in the Hunger Games series, and here she is playing a cougar!

Na, no hard feelings, 
I just feel a bit ripped off.

She does a pretty good job though, and manages to keep a rather weak comedy afloat. I was surprised as to how unfunny it was as this is the same writer/director - Gene Stupnisky - who gave us Good Boys which was one of the best comedies of its year.

Basically its about a nerdy young guy whose parents want him to "man-up" so he will survive college, and a few other things in life.  His parents decide to "buy" him a girlfriend that will teach him a few things.   

In the meantime, Maddie,  (Jennifer Lawrence) is in trouble financially and likely to lose her house.  She also has a grudge about her sleepy seaside town which has become a holiday house mecca making it constantly crowded and everything unaffordable.  She gets the hired girlfriend job.

It's got all the predictable scenes with her as his tormentor and protector as their love/hate impossible relationship develops.  There aren't too many surprises and there are more than a few predictable and wearisome scenes, including him singing a song that makes her cry.  It nearly made me cry too, but not for the same reason.