Raunchy comedies can be great or they can be horrendous. Comedy is so subjective and many times I do not like the movies that fall into that raunchy category. However, No Hard Feelings starring Jennifer Lawrence looked funny from the trailers and I was hoping that this one would be a lot of fun.

According to IMDB, “On the brink of losing her home, Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence) finds an intriguing job listing: helicopter parents looking for someone to bring their introverted 19-year-old son out of his shell before college. She has one summer to make him a man or die trying.”

Andrew Barth Feldman played that 19-year-old son, Percy, and he did a fantastic job of if. He and Jennifer Lawrence made a wonderful pairing, which is one of the reasons why No Hard Feelings worked as well as it did. If you did not like the two lead characters, this film would have been doomed.

Now, this movie was surely predictable. As soon as Percy’s parents told Maddie that Percy could not know that they were hiring her to “date” their son, it was clear what was going to happen. The thing is that predictable does not necessarily mean bad. A movie can be predictable and still be effective if executed properly. And No Hard Feelings id a good job with its humor and its situations that they placed Maddie and Percy into.

I guess this film is not as ‘raunchy’ as I thought it was going to be, which is probably another reason why I liked it more than I thought I might. It had its moments, but it could have been way worse than what we got.

My favorite scene was the skinny dipping scene, but not necessarily for the reason you may think. I do not know how to go into this without spoiling it, so I will just say that this moment was awesome for several reasons.

I also wanted to shout out the supporting roles of Percy’s parents, Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti, and Maddie’s best friends, Natalie Morales and Scott MacArthur.

No Hard Feelings had two lead stars that were funny and charming together. They were easy to like and that made a predictable storyline less likely to be a problem. Jennifer Lawrence was committed to the comedic aspects of the film and was not afraid to take it that extra step.

3.75 stars