You're So Cupid

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Director: John Lyde
Stars: Caitlin EJ Meyer, Danielle Chuchran, Lauren Holly, Brian Krause, Jeremy Sumpter
Year:  2010 Running Time:  110 mins Rating: 3 out of 5 CERT: PG

While acting as their high school's dating consultants, the Valentine twins - glamorous Emma and artistic Lily - have never found love themselves. Then they both fall for the same guy. It could be the end of a perfect sisterhood. But while put aside their differences to reunite their separated parents, they discover what makes them such natural born matchmakers. A sweet-natured romance with a light dusting of fairy dust.

Review

Managing to present a cute and wholesome picture of lovestruck high-schoolers with neither musical numbers nor the need for a sick bucket, You're So Cupid is something of a novelty.

Essentially The Parent Trap with mobile phones, it sees unidentical twins Emma (Danielle Cuchran) and Lily (Caitlin EJ Meyer) playing matchmaker not only to their schoolmates, but also to their estranged parents (Charmed star Brian Krause and Lauren Holly, looking suspiciously trout-pouty in her post-Dumb & Dumber days).

In between times, the story goes a bit Bride Wars (though less gratingly so) when their sisterly love is derailed by Connor, the new hunk in town (played by Jeremy Sumpter, a one-time Peter Pan).

Both girls are smitten with him and, thanks to a magical twist, he with both of them.

In a fantastical but agreeable twist, we discover why the Valentines are so good at organising the love lives of others. Even at the expense of their own.

Normally played loud and giddy, this kind of fluff usually aggravates like a comedy ringtone.

But by virtue of an engaging cast and script that doesn't think it's too cool for school, there's no such irritation here.

Anyone hungry for a romantic slice of pie in the sky is in for a satifying little treat.

Elliott Noble

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