Colleen Hoover’s latest movie adaptation “Regretting You” is a cheesy and predictable romance movie that has questionable moral choices as well as boring love stories.

The film has some big names attached to it, similar to Hoover’s last movie, “It Ends With Us” (2024) starring Blake Lively. While “It Ends With Us” received extreme negative feedback as well as the controversy surrounding Lively and co-star Justin Baldoni, the film still did very well.

“Regretting You” stars some of the big up-and-coming actors in Hollywood, with Mckenna Grace (“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”) playing main character Clara Grant and Mason Thames (“How to Train Your Dragon”) playing her love interest Miller Adams.

While the actors are promising, the script is not. The film is in typical Hoover-story fashion: a very predictable plotline that takes weird turns to try to subvert audience expectations but does the exact opposite.

When Clara’s aunt and father are killed in a car accident, Clara’s mother, played by Allison Williams, finds out the two were having an affair and keeping it from Clara. This of course leads to tension and Clara rebelling with ‘bad boy’ Miller. Except, Miller is not really a bad boy.

Hoover does a terrible job of creating depth in characters. While this plot can be interesting to unpack grief and teenage growing pains, all viewers get are one-dimensional characters with no angst or conflicts.

Clara’s best friend is the typical comic relief character who of course ends up with Miller’s best friend. These typical tropes make Hoover’s plot so infuriatingly boring.

There is no better word for the lines in the film than cringe. Hoover tries to make the characters sound like today’s teens but the lines fall extremely flat. There are a few times where one can not help but roll their eyes or gag at a cheesy line made by the characters.

The acting was fairly good, but with the material given, everything read almost unbearable.

The two main love stories intertwine but are both not good. For one, Clara and Miller’s story is morally questionable as Miller has an on-again, off-again girlfriend while flirting with and pursuing Clara. While this was questioned in the beginning, as the movie progresses the audience is just supposed to forget this exists and find the couple the cutest relationship to exist.

Of course, relationships can be messy and complicated but where is the exploration following that? It would have been interesting to explore the consequences of this emotional cheating or have it be a bigger aspect of the plot. It felt so unnecessary and was a useless conflict that did not serve the plot in any way.

The ending was incredibly rushed and tried to quickly tie everything together. The story follows this family trying to figure out their life together after grief but does not explore those harder feelings. Instead, it wraps a pretty bow on it at the end to make everything now seem perfect.

“Regretting You” fails to tie the story together well in written form or on the big screen. Hoover’s wacky plotlines are messy and insignificant, not leaving viewers moved or changed in any way.