Irish Wish… le sigh. Here we go again. Another generic vacation rom-com (at least Ireland is beautiful this time of movie). Also a stab at a come back for Ms. Lindsay Lohan… which is something I want for her too, but perhaps not from yet another hand-wavingly just-another-one-of-these rom-coms.

In this one, she’s an editor attracted to her author client… but he proposes to her best friend and now she’s saddled as a bridesmaid for an Irish destination wedding. One in which she makes a wish and a sprightly little leprechaun lady (it’s Ireland… it was either that or Nessie) makes her the bride.

And, yeah, it’s just generic sloppy rom-com writing in a sloppy rom-com movie. The big gimmick of wish fulfillment basically amounts to her not remembering the past few months since she was magicked into a different timeline. The end result of which could just as easily been re-written with another rom-com cliché: amnesia. Yeah, magic faerie spell or getting conked on the head… same result.

Look, if you’re the kind of person who loves generic rom-coms and hopes she’ll fall for the rogueish nature photographer over the kind of rude guy she’d been pining for, then maybe this is your jam. There’s nothing in these decisions or this comedy or this writing or this plot for anyone else. But it IS harmless and you get to root for Lindsay again. Maybe that’s enough.

But I think Lindsay Lohan deserves better. We all deserve better. The caterers and the best boy deserve better. The lighting guys and the director too. Every last one of us demand better… except for hopeless romantics who just eat this stuff up. You’ll be happy.

Score: 62