Cow Belles

It's… fine? Kind of? The moral's there, in all its glory, impossible to miss because the characters slap you in the face with it repeatedly. Tonally, the script's a bit one-note even as it happily flips between comedy and drama. Romantic subplots feel shoehorned in, another checkbox to appease the target demographic I suppose. My main _specific_ issue is how the dairy employees—adults—behave toward the two protagonists. Given that many of them are also parents to children of their own, the remarks hurled at Taylor and Courtney were flat-out appalling. They were intended as such, true, but poor Reed Callum if those are the people whose livelihoods he protects as if they're his own family. Some of them just don't deserve it. I enjoyed the film well enough, but there were too many things that made me go "wait, what?" to call it _good_. Could have used more Jean Yoon (Umma from _Kim's Convenience_), and a rewrite to add _some_ amount of intelligence to the dairy's office leadership. (Seriously, no one suggested [spoiler]checking with the bank to see if they could get more details about what happened to the company's funds instead of just assuming it was Reed's doing[/spoiler]?)