The Wrong Paris 2025 Movie Review
The Wrong Paris (2025), starring Miranda Cosgrove (as Dawn), Pierre Forbe (as Paris), and Frances Fisher (as Birdie, Dawn’s grandmother).
You think by looking at this film that you’re gonna get your typical Hallmark-style movie-one of those low-quality romances that only focus on the love story. But let me be honest with you: I truly enjoyed this film. I thought it was very well done.
The story follows Dawn (Miranda Cosgrove), who dreams of going to art school but needs to find a way to pay the $30K tuition. To raise the money, she enters a Bachelor-style reality show called Honey Pot. What she doesn’t realize is that there are some serious twists involving Paris (Pierre Forbe), the bachelor himself, along with plenty of surprises from the eliminations to the finale.
I especially liked the character of Rachel. On the other hand, I didn’t care for Jazmin or Lexi. Jazmin felt too much like the overly brainy “nerd” archetype, while Lexi worked well enough as the mean girl but could have been written with more nuance. They added some support to the cast, but not all of it landed as well as it could have.
The eliminations and twists, though, really worked. Some moments you saw coming, some caught you off guard, and even the ending left you questioning what was going to happen, which kept me invested. The whole “movie within a show” concept-filming a reality series inside a romantic comedy-was clever, creative, and surprisingly well executed.
One thing that did throw me off was Dawn’s first interaction with her grandmother, Birdie (Frances Fisher). Birdie is the one who raised Dawn after her parents passed, so their first meeting should have felt more emotional. Instead, the moment came across a little bland, almost like Dawn didn’t care for her grandmother, and that stuck with me through the film.
That aside, yes, I absolutely recommend this movie. It’s streaming on Netflix, and it’s worth the watch. If it had been released in theaters, I’d say you could wait-because while it’s good, it’s not mind-blowing. Still, it’s clever, heartfelt, and enjoyable. I’d rate it 3.5 out of 5 stars-over halfway, entertaining, and worth your time.
