The beats and trappings are all standard-issue, but the gags are funny enough, often enough, to offset such routine proceedings.

An above-average number of laugh-out-loud set pieces compensate for the resulting wobbly narrative.

If the emotional mathematics don’t quite add up, enough diversion is provided by pic’s broader comic setpieces to paper over the cracks.

The result is funny and plausible, with a fair bit of newly modish Bridesmaidsy bad taste, though I kept getting the sense that the romcom template meant Mazer couldn't really let rip with pure comedy pessimism and cynicism in the way he might have liked.

In the end it amounts to not much, but in the moment I laughed a lot.