“Marry Me” is being positioned as the big 2022 Valentine’s Day offering from Hollywood, presenting a digestible opposites-attract tale that’s filled with music and warm feelings, and an enormous number of plugs for NBC television programming. Sweetness isn’t really a priority for the picture, which is a loose adaptation of a webcomic, though such an odd inspiration doesn’t really factor into the making of the endeavor, which often resembles dozens of other romantic comedies all seeking to create some tingles for date night. “Marry Me” is certainly inoffensive, but there’s no noticeable drive from director Kat Coiro (“A Case of You”) to make something different with the material, happily guiding the feature through predictable scenes and programmed feelings. There’s very little spark to the movie, which spends most of the run time denying what actually works in the film, on a simple quest to deliver the same old stuff for holiday viewers trying to catch a little buzz off big screen love. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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