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The Amazon Original movie Merv landed on Prime Video on December 10th. The movie stars Cox and Zooey Deschanel as Russ and Anna, an estranged couple forced into an unusual co-parenting arrangement when their beloved dog Merv loses his spark after their split. As they work together to fix Merv’s broken heart, they discover that it just may rekindle some sparks of their own.
Merv Is a Predictable but Sweet Holiday Rom-Com
With only five reviews on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of posting, there isn’t enough of a consensus for Merv to earn a critic score just yet. However, the general consensus seems to be that the movie mostly sticks to the status quo when it comes to holiday rom-coms and just passes as a watchable, albeit easy to forget, holiday fare.
Variety’s Tomris Laffly wrote that Merv “amounts to straight-to-streaming filler of one-note visuals and emotions that might temporarily put a forgettable smile on your face,” and Collider’s Nate Richard said that “despite the tagline promising ‘a different breed of romantic comedy,’ you pretty much know exactly what you’ll get from Merv just by looking at the poster. But hey, it’s still a pretty darn cute Christmas rom-com.” ScreenRant’s Grant Hermanns described Merv as “a Hallmark-level title that has no faith in its viewers’ intelligence” that, while hitting “the familiar beats that many find comforting,” “spells out everything to the point of leaving no nuance for viewers to reflect on.”
