How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)

How-to-Date-Billy-Walsh-(2024)
How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)

Alex Pillai’s film, ‘How To Date Billy Walsh’, not only adds to the genre of YA books specifically in the realm of Romantic Comedies but also adds a Fleabag-esque fourth wall-breaking commentary style through the male lead. Maybe I am aging, growing out of the phase where chick flicks and teen movies would appeal to me. But, let me point that out, this movie was not easy for me to watch, regardless of my age. Coming into this film, I had no expectations, yet much like other movies, the only thing that stood out for me was the cast selection.

The story of the movie revolves around the interplay between Amelia Charlotte Chandran and Archie Sebastian, and how the two of them have been inseparable friends for the longest time. He has cherished her since forever but would never let her know because that might destroy the bond they have as Amelia could be proven to be a bad mother in the worst-case scenario. But one day he decides to put all his energy and power and eloquence into just one sentence. Things go south however because a new transfer from America, Billy Walsh Tanner Buchanan, He’s All That disconserves Archie’s premonitions. Amelia sees billy and grabs Archie towards her, out of desperation even when he’s still crushing drunk. On the night of the prom however, she decides to throw caution to the wind and asks him to be her date. Instead of helping Amelia avert the crisis of losing his best friend whom he’s been in love with forever, he elects to try to end the intensifying romance.

I know that How to Date Billy Walsh is a young adult novel, even though I am a huge fan of romcom, such as She’s All That, How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days or the all-time favorite 10 Things I Hate About You so all these movies were quite my favorites. I mean, there is no chance now or in the future that someone will dethrone Heath Ledger from the top of the singers when he sang Frank Valli’s ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’ with a school band for Kat Stratford, played by Julia Stiles. You just can’t!

The problem with romantic comedies that have recently been provided is simply due to the fact that it lack the feeling associated with that kind of genre. It’s just the variation of the plot where the boy is crazy about the best friend who happens to be a girl of, been there done that, and what is wrong with it! The only trouble is,” he said, “the plot is dull and the cast has no chemistry between them. As Archie replayed how he got embroiled in this haze, I pondered and wondered: Is the way we’re supposed to feel sorry for him? His viewpoint was rather difficult to grapple with.

He showed no regard to his best friend while belittling him over and over throughout his life. He portrays himself as a “love doctor” – an aged gentleman who provides relationship advice while pretending to be an old man via AIs that make him look old as well. 

In her desperate effort, Amelia picks up the phone dials the number of the “love doctor” and starts sharing her pain with him. What she failed to understand was that this so-called doctor was a fraud fake and would shamelessly capitalize on her emotions.

In most cases fans tend to gravitate toward the main characters, be it love or support, that is not the case for Archie as he is underwhelming in every sense. More like a man of high society, Archie is privately chauffeured, currently residing in a fully furnished house, enjoying lavish lifestyles and regularly indulging in expensive purchases. Even more lavishly, he goes on to rent an entire cinema to show Amelia how much he adores her! A disillusioned Archie takes on the upbeat role f using her feelings against Billy aptly making him come across as a loser for a majority part of the film. He just cannot fathom the possibility Amelia could be remotely interested in anyone other than him, in fact in a desperate stand he even went on to lie to her about Billy.

Billy, like Archie, is a rather unique character but unlike his counterpart and in fact the titular character, his only redeeming quality is being the person who wrote her name. Perception-wise, it wouldn’t be far off to say that Billy is nothing more than a side character who is there during critical moments or waiting for Amelia during school while all the other students around make a fool out of young girls in the process of trying to impress Amelia.

Archie Walsh, who doesn’t take part in the action at all, was Probably the most wooden character in How to Date Billy Walsh who oddly does not have a life.

There was only one Kunta who could become that center of attention especially and the story decides to describe her as that dumb friend of hers during the film when she in the beginning makes sense and even finds some of it rather funny. I do recall supporting Chandran who played Edwina Sharma in Bridgerton. The movie How to Date Billy Walsh however failed to make good use of her talent. She tries her very best to flash her pretty face but the storyline and the rest of the things surrounding this movie turn out to be a graphic bowl of blandness. As much as any of you have hopes regarding this flick please I implore you do not to hype yourself. No hands down! What do you think, for instance, this, will even now. Close don’t grieve, turn your back to the monitor sit down.

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