I Want You Back meets the bare minimum for the rom-com genre: it's sweet and funny. Based on so many others in the genre, this is a harder bar to meet than one may think. Day is good, and Slate is a treasure; they play their friendship turned (spoiler...I guess?) romance with a When Harry Met Sally... influence and confidence that is as unashamed as it is corny. The secret weapon, though, is Eastwood; he needs to do more comedy like this and less copying of his dad's beady-eyed, masculine stoicism.
Review of I Want You Back
