Line #64 Film/WalkingOnSunshine


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3	->''"...But then, suddenly I knew some summer romances are meant to last forever."''
4	-->-- '''Maddie'''
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6	''Walking on Sunshine'' is a 2014 British JukeboxMusical romantic comedy film. It stars Hannah Arterton, Annabel Scholey, Giulio Berruti, Katy Brand, Creator/GregWise, Giulio Corso, Danny Kirrane, and Music/LeonaLewis, and was directed by William Pym and Dania Pasquini. It's been described by many as the UK's answer to ''Film/MammaMia'' (despite the movie not being based on a popular stage production) and features music from popular artists from TheEighties, such as Music/{{Madonna}} and Music/WhitneyHouston.
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8	The movie stars recent [[UsefulNotes/BritishUnis university graduate]] Taylor (Arterton), who is returning to Italy after three years of studying to reunite with an old boyfriend named Raf (Berruti) and meet up with her sister Maddie (Scholey). Maddie is engaged to an attractive local man and is planning to surprise her sister when she arrives, with the help of their old friends Lil (Brand), Elena (Lewis) and her Italian boyfriend Enrico (Corso), and Mickey (Kirrane), who are either visiting too or have emigrated to Italy.
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10	After spying Raf on the beach, Taylor works up the courage to surprise him but is shocked to discover that her old boyfriend is now her sister's fiance. Taylor attempts to get over the shock and convinces herself that Raf was an old teenage fling but their mischievous friends are constantly setting everyone up for activities that force her and Raf to face each other. Meanwhile, an excited Maddie prepares for her wedding but soon reunites with an old boyfriend named Doug (Wise), who is desperate to reignite their relationship, much to her annoyance.
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12	!!Tropes
13	* BadGirlSong: "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "The Wild Boys", which play during the bachelor party scenes.
14	* BigBeautifulWoman: Lil. She's also TheTease, who flirts with many attractive men throughout the movie.
15	* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: "Venus" becomes one during a DreamSequence.
16	* BSODSong: Raf and Taylor with "It Must Have Been Love" through DistantDuet.
17	* DistractedByTheSexy:
18	** Maddie when she sees Doug's open shirt. She even hides her picture of Raf when she's indecisive on cheating on him.
19	** Taylor, following Raf around during "How Will I Know".
20	* TheDitz: Elena is a downplayed version. She's mostly competent but is always eavesdropped on by characters that shouldn't be listening.
21	* DrowningMySorrows: At Maddie's engagement/housewarming party, the group dance off into the courtyard singing "[[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews The Power of Love]]", leaving Taylor alone in the restaurant to calm her stress with shots. Raf joins her.
22	* ElevenOClockNumber: "White Wedding", as everyone races to get to the church after their wild bachelor parties.
23	* FatComicRelief: Lil for the female characters and Mickey for the male characters.
24	* {{Foreshadowing}}: During their bickering, Raf snaps at Taylor that if she was in love with him, she should've paraded it around on the rooftops. Taylor doesn't think so.
25	* FourthDateMarriage: Maddie isn't ashamed to say that she hasn't known Raf for more than five weeks before she agreed to marry him. Taylor is unsurprisingly shocked.
26	* TheGhost: Doug doesn't appear until the end of the first act. He's mentioned in passing by Taylor and Lil at the beginning because Maddie had recently ended their relationship, but even all of the minor characters are introduced long before Doug turns up.
27	* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Subverted. Although being complete opposites, Taylor and Maddie are very close.
28	-->'''Maddie:''' Congrats on being the smart one.\
29	'''Taylor:''' Well, you'll always be better at ballet.
30	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Taylor, who's very protective of her sister's feelings, caring, studied at university, and is very careful about her relationships. Maddie was surprised when she discovered that Taylor had a relationship with a local man when she went on holiday years before.
31	* HakunaMatata: "The Power of Love", in which Maddie sings about being happy that she's fallen in love again.
32	* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Maddie discovers that her fiance and her sister used to date, Taylor refuses to say that she still has feelings for Raf. [[spoiler:Considering the [[ShipperOnDeck knowing look she gives Taylor]] in the wedding scene, Maddie wasn't convinced.]]
33	* IWantSong:
34	** The opening number "Holiday" doesn't have the lyrics of this type of song, but Taylor's determination to reunite with her old Italian boyfriend as she sings fits the trope.
35	** "How Will I Know", as well.
36	* ItsAllAboutMe: Maddie, Lil and Taylor say this of Doug. Although the movie doesn't show much evidence of Doug talking about himself all the time, his actions of trying to get Maddie back without her consent imply this.
37	* {{Jerkass}}: Doug. Although mentioned, we don't see his mean streak until Lil discovers that he'd arrived in Italy, in which he said that Maddie looked better when she was standing next to Lil.
38	* JukeboxMusical: With hits from Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/GeorgeMichael, Music/{{Cher}}, Music/KatrinaAndTheWaves, and Music/WhitneyHouston, to say a few.
39	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Raf and Taylor's arguing, however, a scene before the arguing implies that EveryoneCanSeeIt: in the ring shop, the cashier offers the rings to them, making Taylor splutter that she is Raf's sister-in-law.
40	* MinorCharacterMajorSong: Doug gets two: "[[Music/GeorgeMichael Faith]]" and "Don't You Want Me?"
41	* MissingMom: Maddie and Taylor's mother is dead. It's never specified how long it's been since she passed, but it's implied that Maddie's promiscuousness was her coping mechanism.
42	* MrFanservice: Raf, especially when he emerges from the sea in "How Will I Know".
43	* QuarrelingSong: "Don't You Want Me?" (although, Doug is using it to win Maddie back).
44	* RaceForYourLove: Used, but for getting Taylor to the wedding on time so that the day goes successfully.
45	* ReallyGetsAround: How Maddie defends her really-quick engagement to Raf.
46	-->'''Maddie:''' [Raf] wasn't the first [man she dated when she first arrived in Italy]. He was the ... fourth.
47	* RejectionAffection: Maddie snaps at Doug that she's not interested, but he isn't convinced, and even borderline stalks her back to the villa.
48	* SatelliteCharacter: Practically everyone except Maddie, Taylor, and Raf are satellite, however, they are all on holiday with each other, which justifies it, depending on interpretation.
49	* SexySoakedShirt: After the tomato festival, Raf takes Taylor to the beach and they throw themselves into the water to clean. The moment almost makes the two of them fall in love like they had three years ago.
50	* ShipTease:
51	** Doug and Maddie. [[spoiler:They never reconcile, much to Doug's annoyance.]]
52	** During the "Walking on Sunshine" number, there is a brief moment between Lil and Mickey when Lil helps Mickey up after he tripped.
53	* ShipperOnDeck: Everyone towards Raf and Taylor. [[spoiler:Maddie is revealed to be one in the final scene, too.]]
54	* ShirtlessScene:
55	** Raf has a few in many beach scenes, particularly "How Will I Know", when he also has a shower scene.
56	** Doug in "Faith", who is trying to flirt with Maddie.
57	* ShoutOut:
58	** In the hen party/stag do scenes, all the characters are dressed up as 1980s' music icons or other pop culture figures. Notable ones are Lil, Maddie and Taylor as memorable phases of Music/{{Madonna}}, Enrico as Music/GeorgeMichael, and Raf as Music/AdamAnt.
59	** The men at the hen night are dressed similar to the characters in the finale of ''Film/TheFullMonty'', but then it's later revealed [[spoiler:that they are ''actual'' security guards.]]
60	** Lil's first appearance is a shout-out to ''Film/{{Gilda}}'':
61	--->'''Maddie:''' ''(pulling her sister out to the swimming pool)'' Are you decent?
62	--->'''Lil:''' ''(rises from deckchair and pulls down her sunglasses)'' Who, me?
63	* ShowerScene: Raf, when he's washing the ocean off him during "How Will I Know".
64	* SidekickSong: Lil gets two: "[[Music/{{Bananarama}} Venus]]" and "[[Music/CyndiLauper Girls Just Wanna Have Fun]]".
65	* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: [[spoiler:When asked, Doug stands up. Without turning around, Maddie snaps at him to sit down, but then, she eventually stops the wedding herself.]]
66	* ThinkingOutLoud: Elena talks aloud to Enrico about her concern for Maddie and Taylor, just as Maddie appears and misinterprets their conversation, leading to Elena making up a lie that digs her and Enrico deeper.
67	* ThirdActMisunderstanding: There becomes an eventual pile-up of these.
68	** Taylor pretends that she never knew Raf, as well as all of her old friends from three years before that decided to stay in Italy.
69	** Elena being eavesdropped on by Maddie leads her to saying that she's pregnant. [[spoiler:It turns out that she was right.]]
70	* WhyWasteAWedding: Averted. [[spoiler:There is no scene of Taylor and Raf going back to the church to get married, but they reconcile on the roof of a building in the town.]]

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