On Netflix, Lindsay Lohan tries to turn her career around with the romantic comedy An Irish Wish

This 21st century has begun and Lindsay Lohan He became a teenage icon. After his first film, Twins game (1998), filmed when he was just 12 years old, he moved on to other comedies, such as Crazy Friday (2003), with Jamie Lee Curtis, and Blackest Bad Girls (2004) or Herbie: Full speed ahead (2005). Those were the times when she won all the MTV Movie Awards, Teen Choice Awards and Kids Choice Awards. Now Netflix previews an Irish wishwith whom the ex-girlfriend disney hopes to have a resurgence in his career.

Will you do it?

Lohan overcame it all, when she became a frequent target of paparazzi and tabloids, all because of her legal troubles, court visits and stints in detention centers. Away from acting, she took refuge with her partner until she felt it was time to return.

Famous for her somewhat hoarse voice, Lohan, of Irish origins, performs in this film an Irish wish to Maddie, an editor secretly in love with a very successful author, Paul Kennedy (Alexander Vlahos), to whom, unbeknownst to everyone, she wrote her latest best seller.

The film begins with Maddie getting out of a taxi to attend Paul’s book launch. She is stunned, when she closes the taxi door she is left holding the scarf, which she loses and sets the tone for everything that will be seen: a simple, romantic comedy, with the twists and turns of any self-respecting romantic comedy.

But Maddie doesn’t listen to her mother (Jane Seymour), who tells her to declare her love for Paul, and instead Paul falls in love with Emma, ​​one of Maddie’s best friends (Elizabeth Tan, from Emily in Paris, another Netflix production). And here is Maddie, traveling to Ireland, where she will be Emma’s maid of honor at her wedding to the man of her dreams.

A nod to “Crazy Fridays”?

With a twist or a wink that might remind you of it Crazy Friday (she and Jamie Lee Curtis, who was her mother, switched bodies), Maddie sits on some rocks, which turns out to be the wishing chair. A woman appears to her, who we later discover is Saint Bridget, and Maddie expresses her secret desire: to marry Paul.

No sooner said than done. She doesn’t remember what it was like, but the one who is about to say yes, I want, is her and not Emma.

To make matters worse, she meets a “nature” photographer (Ed Speleers), who will end up being the photographer of the wedding and previous meetings and rehearsals. Because Paul comes from a millionaire family and lives in a wonderful villa.

Director Janeen Damian had already brought the redhead in Christmas goalpe (2022), one of those comedies that Americans like so much during the Christmas period, but which generally don’t catch on in our country. He doesn’t show much flair for comedy here, there are a lot of clichés, not just in the soundtrack, and the fight scene between Maddie’s two romantic interests is appallingly pathetic.

There are many luxuries, an ostentatious production, but the film must involve the viewer more. Lohan is the absolute protagonist, but Maddie’s second thoughts and the way in which she initially tried not to show her love to Paul are unconvincing.

“An Irish Wish”

Romantic comedy. Ireland/United States, 2024. Original title: “Irish desire”. 93′, ATP R. From: Janeen Damiano. With: Lindsay Lohan, Ed Speleers, Alexander Vlahos, Elizabeth Tan, Jane Seymour. Available in: Netflix.