First-time feature director Kimmy Gatewood can’t quite pull off the tricky task of telegraphing that something is up with Dennis without making Andrea seem like an idiot for continuing to trust him.
Instead of translating a real-life experience into something enjoyably madcap, Good On Paper more often than not feels like a friend recounting every detail of a story that’s less interesting than they think it is.
In trying to both score laughs and impart a moral, Good On Paper doesn’t really manage to do either; it’s not funny enough to work as a straight comedy and not human enough to work as a dramedy.
Still, the sheer audacity of what it’s trying to do within the romantic comedy genre counts for something.
Good On Paper essentially delivers a “hold my beer†escalation to the anti-rom-com subversions of movies like My Best Friend’s Wedding and (500) Days Of Summer