WEATHER GIRL
A rainy, formulaic romantic comedy best left for discerning adults.
Should You Watch It?
WEATHER GIRL begins with a promising comic setup: Sylvia, a weather anchor, loses her job after angrily confronting her cheating boyfriend during a live broadcast. But the movie soon settles into a simple, formulaic romantic comedy that becomes boring and painful to watch.
There are a couple of laugh-out-loud moments, and Sylvia’s relationship with her younger brother, Walt, is mostly supportive despite its dysfunction. Those small strengths are outweighed by poorly written dialogue, overacting, formulaic directing, strong romantic themes, foul language, and implied fornication. The central relationship also feels less than believable because the characters are in incompatible developmental stages.
The movie’s worldview is especially troubling because it presents self-improvement apart from God. For discerning adults who choose to watch, home is the better setting. Families and young teens should choose something else.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESSylvia works as a weather reporter for the Seattle Daily Morning Show. After discovering that her boyfriend has been cheating on her with his co-host, she loses control during a live broadcast and loses her job.
Forced to move in with her immature younger brother, Walt, Sylvia struggles to rebuild her career. Meanwhile, Walt’s best friend, Byron, takes an interest in her, leading them into a casual relationship.
Is It Any Good?
Two stars means WEATHER GIRL has only limited entertainment value. It starts somewhat humorously and includes a couple of laugh-out-loud moments. The mostly supportive, sometimes dysfunctional brother-sister relationship between Sylvia and Walt is another modest strength.
The movie otherwise suffers from poorly written dialogue, overacting, and formulaic directing. Its simple plot becomes boring, and the romantic relationship feels less than believable because Sylvia and Byron appear to be in incompatible developmental stages. Their attempts to make the story more engaging fall short.
The Worldview
WEATHER GIRL presents a strong Romantic worldview. Its characters live pagan lifestyles, sex outside of marriage is treated as normal, and friends tell Sylvia that finding a man is the final fulfilling accomplishment in life. The film also includes one reference to God, when a character says, “God is mad at me.”
The movie suggests that people can become better by overcoming their own deficiencies without God’s help. One character connects her deficiencies to her mother’s death and her father’s poor parenting, then believes she can overcome them on her own. That message departs from the biblical truth that people need God’s saving, justifying, and sanctifying work through Jesus Christ.
The film’s longing for fulfillment is directed toward romance and self-improvement rather than God. Scripture says, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand” (Ephesians 2:10).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Strong Romantic worldview including characters who live pagan lifestyles, plus one reference to God where character says “God is mad at me”; 66 obscenities and 30 profanities; very light comic violence when woman runs into another woman’s fist and falls down; some sexual references including distasteful, flippant statements about certain male body parts and certain female body parts, teenage boy hits on main character, kitchen staff at main character’s job make sexually suggestive comments to her in Spanish, three instances of implied fornication, couple is found sleeping in bed together, couple starts to fornicate but are interrupted, and it is implied that man and woman lived together for a time; woman wears only a sweatshirt, upper male nudity, woman undresses twice to her bra and underwear; strong alcohol references include characters drink beer, characters drink wine with dinner, character becomes alcoholic and is played for laughs, one character says he has started drinking heavily since he was rejected by the woman he loves; character smokes next to a No Smoking sign; and, woman lies to her brother about her relationship, sex outside of marriage is promoted as “normal,” man cheats on his girlfriend, main character’s friends tell her that getting a man is the final fulfilling accomplishment in life, brother tells main character to lower her standards, one character comments, “This is the world, we don’t always get to do what we want to do,” and character attributes her “deficiencies” to her mother’s death and her father’s poor parenting and believes she is able to overcome these on her own.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
The movie treats romance as the final source of fulfillment. What does Scripture say should occupy first place in our lives?
Matthew 22:37–38 · Colossians 3:1–4The characters treat sex outside marriage as normal. How does the Bible describe God’s design for sexual relationships?
1 Corinthians 6:18–20 · Hebrews 13:4The film suggests people can overcome their deficiencies without God’s help. Where do we find true strength and transformation?
John 15:5 · Philippians 2:13Sylvia’s brother is sometimes dysfunctional but mostly supportive. What does patient, truthful support look like in a family?
Galatians 6:1–2 · Ephesians 4:15The Final Word
WEATHER GIRL has a few laughs and a mostly supportive sibling relationship, but its weak filmmaking and troubling romantic worldview outweigh those strengths. Because of the sexual content, profanity, and message of self-improvement without God, the better answer is WAIT FOR HOME — ADULTS ONLY. For a family-friendly alternative, see.
