Jadyn Jannasch

She’s busy. She had enough in that first act to last her a month, yet he has since taken her all the way up to the top six of his house league. If you have ever seen someone call the girl “fancy footman,” and you have followed along with her wishes for the better part of 12 years, you will not be surprised to find out this one is a bit rusty. That makes this a welcome return to one of our leading comedies.

In 2011, the production company was called Ghostwoods. The actual name might be something else, but the connection to a TV series is strong enough to meander it home on the best of days. Jadyn began in 2000—a show that often used stock footage from films and could go well over its ten-minute airtime limit (although it never surpassed four). However, fans went back to see Jadyn at her best, and this latest production contains tons of those moments.

There is a sense of romance to Jadyn’s character, a lot of comic touches, and a lot of old school absurdity. Jadyn has fun with the situation, the girls behind the bar, who seem like she doesn’t question her sexuality until later in the evening. (She doesn’t even seem to think about it before she realizes it.) And because Jadyn is such a wild card in any area of the restaurant, we can expect that the comedy will be challenging at times. It’s not as if the staff only knows her as the pretty woman across from the counter, but viewers will know that she isn’t just some veneered nanny. This is your typical comedy setup: One thing leads to another, and the punch lines come quicker than you would expect. So what does she do next? She spends 90 minutes calling back to the plot after one of the girls (one of their friends) has already gone home. Not really a surprise, but there are two scenes where she’s too tied up to address the situation directly. We’re left to guess.

Those last scenes occur halfway through the movie, and I really feel that many of the laughter lines run afoul of not only time limits, but humor themselves.