Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel It Ends With Us got a film adaptation in 2024 that turned into a smash hit. Hoover’s 2019 book Regretting You made it to screens in 2025 and did substantially less well but nonetheless made a profit so I suspect more movies based on her work in the future.

In high school circa 2007, seniors Morgan Davidson (Allison Williams) and Jonah Sullivan (Dave Franco) feel like they date the wrong people and show a connection with each other. However, when Morgan gets pregnant via boyfriend Chris Grant (Scott Eastwood), they marry, and after a gap of years, Jonah and his teen girlfriend – also Morgan’s sister - Jenny (Willa Fitzgerald) wind up together.

This finds them in 2024 with Morgan and Chris’s 16-year-old daughter Clara (Mckenna Grace) in her own high school relationship that complicates when she shows sparks with classmate Miller Adams (Mason Thames). As Clara navigates her social life, the adults deal with their own complications.

Thanks to age and gender, it seems obvious I don’t fall into the target audience for Regretting You. However, I thought It Ends With Us worked surprisingly well, so that sent me into You with guarded optimism.

A solid cast helped bolster those hopes. Across the board, we find a talented set of actors.

Unfortunately, they can’t redeem this mess. With two competing plots and a story focused more on melodrama than honesty, this turns into a pretty ridiculous flick.

Would a Regretting that focused mainly on Morgan/Jonah or Clara/Miller fare better than this hodgepodge? Maybe not, but at least that version would seem more coherent.

With its attention spread across the two arcs, neither gets fleshed out in a satisfying manner. This leaves us with a collection of trite and predictable scenes with nothing new to say.

Regretting does come packed with Big Old Plot Twists, though. We get our first bombshell at the 30-minute mark and then the next at about 51 minutes.

The film follows with less “major” revelations, but they continue to appear. These feel contrived and often ridiculous.

The actors try their best to enliven the material, but the developments become so absurd that they can’t fix its many problems. It doesn’t help that Regretting shifts tone from weepy to goofy at the drop of the hat.

Director Josh Boone can’t pulls off these changes in demeanor. The narrative lurches about like a seasick sailor as it pops from comedy to melodrama and back again, all without a single honest or believable note.

Throw in hilariously bad attempts to “de-age” actors in their mid-to-late 30s to look like high school students and Regretting becomes a considerable misfire. It almost enters “so absurd that it’s good” territory but instead it just seems idiotic.

Regretting You appears in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on this Blu-ray Disc. Expect a positive presentation.

Overall sharpness seemed solid. A couple of wide shots looked a smidgen soft, but those were the exception to the rule, as the majority of the flick was accurate and detailed.

No issues with jagged edges or shimmering occurred, and I noticed no edge haloes. Source flaws were absent, as the movie looked consistently clean.

Regretting gave us a teal-oriented palette, with some amber as well. Within those parameters, the hues were positive.

Blacks seemed deep and dark, while shadows showed good smoothness and clarity. I felt happy with the transfer.

Downconverted to Dolby TrueHD 7.1, the Dolby Atmos soundtrack of Regretting You didn’t bring much to stand out as memorable. I expected that, though, since I wouldn’t anticipate a wild experience from this sort of character drama.

The soundfield focused on the front spectrum, and music presented the most prominent element. The score showed good stereo imaging, and we got general a few involving moments like a beach party.

When the surrounds played a part, they added environmental reinforcement and a bit of spark during the “showier” scenes. Still, this mainly remained a low-key experience.

Audio quality was fine. Speech sounded distinctive and natural, without edginess or other issues.

Effects didn’t have much to do, but they were acceptable for what they offered. Music appeared full and rich. There wasn’t enough here to merit a grade above a “B-“, though, so don’t expect a whizbang soundtrack.

Four featurettes appear here and Adapting You goes for seven minutes, 30 seconds. It provides notes from author Colleen Hoover, director Josh Boone, writer Susan McMartin, and actors McKenna Grace, Mason Thames, Allison Williams, and Dave Franco.

As implied by the title, “You” looks at the novel’s path to the screen. It comes with lots of happy talk and nearly no useful information.

Love in Loss spans three minutes, 16 seconds. It offers remarks from Williams, Franco, Boone, Grace, and Thames.

The featurette talks about story and characters. This delivers an entirely superficial reel.

Next comes the four-minute, three-second A Life Without Regret. Here we get info from Boone, Grace, Williams, Thames, Hoover, Franco and actors Sam Morelos, Willa Fitzgerald and Scott Eastwood.

They talk about the concept of regrets. They tell us nothing more than self-help book platitudes.

Promposal lasts three minutes, 49 seconds. It involves Boone, Thames, Hoover, Grace, Morelos and Eastwood.

We get a look at the “Promposal” scene in the movie and the concept of “promposals”. Once more we wind up with tons of fluff.

Eight Deleted Scenes occupy a total of five minutes, 25 seconds and offer minor extensions to existing scenes. We find little of interest.

Finally, Line-o-Rama spans a mere 45 seconds as it shows Williams as she improvs lines in a comedic confrontation scene. These prove more entertaining than expected.

A collection of plot twists in search of honesty and believability, Regretting You becomes an over the top mess. Indeed, it veers so heavily toward rampant melodrama that it nearly inspires unintentional laughs. The Blu-ray comes with very good visuals and appropriate audio but its supplements seem superficial. Regretting You turns into a silly dud.