A glossy forbidden-romance melodrama with sports-drama garnish, but the reaction pattern suggests thin characterization, clumsy writing, and very little payoff. Unless you specifically want a chaotic, high-drama teen/YA romance with a bad-movie appeal, it sounds more frustrating than fun.
Love Me Love Me
Where to watch: Buy
Movie · Romance · Drama
Thu · 1h 39m
Director: Roger Kumble
Starring: Pepe Barroso, Mia Jenkins, Luca Melucci
Overview
After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will, the perfect honor student at her new international school. But when his troubled best friend James—hiding a dangerous life in clandestine MMA fights—sparks a rivalry that quickly turns into irresistible attraction, June must choose between safety and a love that upends everything she thought she wanted.
Director
Roger Kumble
Cast
Pepe Barroso, Mia Jenkins, Luca Melucci
Curator Review
Verdict
A glossy forbidden-romance melodrama with sports-drama garnish, but the reaction pattern suggests thin characterization, clumsy writing, and very little payoff. Unless you specifically want a chaotic, high-drama teen/YA romance with a bad-movie appeal, it sounds more frustrating than fun.
Best for
Viewers who enjoy so-bad-it’s-entertaining romance melodrama
Fans of rival-love-triangle setups and heightened teen angst
Audiences looking for a glossy, trashy, fast-moving guilty pleasure
Skip if
You want believable chemistry or emotionally grounded romance
You’re allergic to Wattpad-style plotting and contrived conflict
You prefer character-driven drama over repetitive tension and payoff-free buildup
Overview
Love Me Love Me looks designed to hit every button of the modern YA romance machine: grief, relocation, a perfect-boyfriend option, a dangerous bad-boy rival, and a forbidden attraction that promises to upend everything. In practice, that kind of setup lives or dies on chemistry and emotional specificity, and the audience response here points to a film that leans hard on trope without earning much of it.
Worth noting
The strongest signal is not that people were divided, but that they were united in frustration: complaints about logic, flat payoff, and a sense that the movie is borrowing the emotional intensity of fan fiction without the discipline that makes it work on screen. Even the most generous reactions read like ironic affection rather than genuine endorsement.
Bottom line
If you like glossy melodrama and can enjoy a movie as a chaotic artifact of teen-romance excess, there may be some camp value here. But as a romance or drama, it sounds undercooked, repetitive, and more likely to test patience than reward investment.
Top Letterboxd reviews
suzi (0.5★) · 3688 likes
i need a lobotomy after this movie. whoever put a chappell roan's song at the beginning should be in jail
elly (2.5★) · 2716 likes
to quote shane hollander; we didnt even kiss!!
sveva (0.5★) · 2470 likes
it’s set in italy with fully italian actors but everyone is called james and will like we’re in some alternate universe where milan is secretly los angeles, i’m sorry but this is exactly why some ff should stay on wattpad, not everything needs to become a movie. some stories are meant to live in the notes app at 2am and that’s okay !!!
ayeshau10 (3★) · 2197 likes
shit when’s the next one out
negative (0.5★) · 1459 likes
ofc she’d rather wear trousers to school and then pull up to a party in a mini dress
Themes
forbidden romance, love triangle, grief and recovery, teen angst, identity and reinvention, dangerous attraction, sports underworld, international school setting
Topics
romantic drama, YA romance, love triangle, forbidden attraction, grief, teen angst, melodrama, campy, sports underworld, guilty pleasure