Anyone but You (2023)

Image is a movie poster for Anyone But You. It shows a well-dressed man crossing his arms. He looks annoyed. A woman is sitting next to him. She also looks annoyed and she has her arms crossed. There are two flutes of champagne sitting next to her.

The press for Anyone but You is one of the main reasons why I ended up seeing this movie in theaters. I have been seeing Glenn Powell and Sydney Sweeney interview clips popping up on YouTube and these two have amazing chemistry together. If it came out that they were dating this entire time, I would not even be surprised. I went to see a friend last weekend and she’s arguably my movie friend. When we are together, we always end up going to see a movie in theaters and it’s become a part of what we do when we see each other. Anyone but You was such a cute and raunchy rom-com.

Bea (played by Sydney Sweeney) enters a coffee shop where she tries to coax the restroom key from the barista. The barista isn’t having it and Ben (played by Glenn Powell) orders Bea a tea, so she can use the restroom. Bea and Ben spend the day together and the next morning, Bea leaves without telling Ben. Bea regrets it, but when she goes back to Ben’s place, she overhears him saying some nasty things about her. Flash forward to six months later, Bea’s sister, Halle, is engaged to Ben’s friend, Claudia. They celebrate by flying to Australia and getting married there which coaxes Bea and Ben to reunite. The amount of shenanigans that Bea and Ben get up to is unreal which includes Bea looking at Ben’s balls to see if he has a spider there.

This was SO cute. As mentioned, Bea and Ben have amazing chemistry together and Sydney and Glenn should film another movie together. In a rom-com, you want to feel like the main characters deserve to be together and these two are end-game. This movie is the perfect combination of enemies to lovers that I haven’t seen in a rom-com in a while. I liked how this movie gave Bea and Ben more of a backstory. Bea drops out of law school and doesn’t tell her family, Ben’s mom died at a young age, so he seems a bit closed off when trying to get to know someone. It feels like I was watching a romance book come to life.

Anyone but You is rated R and I love the raunchiness of it. There were moments when me and my friend were laughing hysterically. There’s the scene that I mentioned where Bea checks Ben to see if he has another spider, but another scene is when Bea is on the plane and wants to steal Ben’s cookie. Her sweater gets stuck in the seat and when she goes to pull it out, she looks like she’s humping Ben even though he is asleep. I don’t want to spoil everything, but this movie was so funny to watch.

Anyone but You was so good! I haven’t had this much fun watching a rom-com in a long time.

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