In summer 2015, the Argentine author Mercedes Ron began to write on her first novel. The ingredients of her young adult romance “Culpa Mia” were very simple: a forbidden love between stinky, but so far hated step-siblings, seasoned with excessive parties and illegal car racing. After the publication on the eBook platform Wattpad, her debut work also went on Tikok Viral thanks to numerous hype clips, which later with two sequels to the trilogy “Culpables” series-the “After” series by Anna was-based on the model, Todd – to the global super hit. A film adaptation was actually only a matter of time – and so Amazon Prime Video finally secured the rights.
In June 2023, “Culpa Mia – My Fault” started in more than 240 countries and territories on the streaming platform – and immediately took the lead of the charts in 190! A huge success, especially when you consider that it is a Spanish production. But despite the “Squid Game” and “Der Schacht”, English-language content is still attributed to greater hit potential-and so the last flap for an English-language remake fell in May 2024: In “Culpa Mia – my fault: London“, Which also appears exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, the well -known act from Spain will be moved to the Thames to the title -giving metropolis. However, the added value for connoisseurs of the original is very low in the feature film debut of the director Charlotte Fassler and Dani Girdwood.
Matthew Broome and Asha Banks have already proven in their careers that they have something to do with it – but in “Culpa Mia – My Fault: London” they just look damn unappealing.
Ella (Eve Macklin) found a new love in the stinkreichen William Leister (Ray Fearon). So together with her little enthusiastic daughter Noah (Asha Banks) she grabs the suitcase and moves from the US state of Florida to his luxurious house in London. Here, 18-year-old Noah also gets to know Nick (Matthew Broome) of the same age, which she initially considers to be a imaginary and spoiled dad. But about their common soft spot for car racing, the step siblings soon discover romantic feelings for each other, which they keep secret in front of their parents. However, there is also a threat of another side: Ronnie (Sam Buchanan), freshly released from the jail, not only has the fast sled of his adversary Nick …
Experienced to the boxing (almost) everything remains the same
Where the rivalry of Ronnie and Nick comes from or why Noah did not even see her new stepfather or stepbrother before moving to London by Skype Call should not be questioned. As in the literary template and in the Spanish film adaptation – the story is again very thin again. This is only held together by the ecstatic party celebrations, annoying relationship conflicts between prejudice and short-circuit reactions, illegal car racing as well as-and that is new under “Culpa Mia-my fault: London”-brutal underground boxing fights. In particular, the illegal fights don't really want to go into the clean milieu of the Rich Kids fit and therefore appear extremely put on. After all: The pictures in the – quite simple – staged – action scenes come stylish and ensure some optical show values with diffuse light. No wonder, after all, Charlotte Fassler and Dani Girdwood previously staged music videos and a. For Katy Perry.
The remake has a few more innovations compared to the Spanish original: Nicks aggressive dog Thor was completely deleted from the film; Noah gets to know her new best friend Jenna at a pool party, but at the knowledgeable assessment of her sustained cart from an illegal car race. In “Culpa Mia-My Fault: London”, Nick is also not an emerging young lawyer, but an app developer in search of meaning. He exchanged the bright red Porsche for a roaring McLaren, with which he roars at night through little characteristic spots in downtown London. In any case, a real British local color rarely comes into its own-and the well-heighted people then also travel to Ibiza, where there are unequal picturesque scenes between the beach and the sea than in the cloudy-cold London.
Almost everything is already known from the Spanish-speaking original, but at least the underground boxing fights are new!
However, the biggest differences between original and remake are in the final. The reinterpretation cannot avoid a wild chase in tuned sports cars, but here the courage to over-the-top action madness is missing. While the Spanish production was still excavated with an absurd “sports car ballet” with “Fast & Furious” vibes on a narrow pier, the final in the new edition is much cheaper and disappointingly realistic. Even if the line-up is clearly looking at a young audience, the two attractive main characters are the biggest mistake of “Culpa Mia-My Fault: London”: Asha Banks, known from the young adult crime series “A Good Girl's Guide to Murder “, Her always bad-humored Noah as a complicated and beastly bitch, Matthew Broome (” The Buccaneers “) alludes his nick despite the boy band face as an open and quick snapped Schönling with an enormously short cord.
Both are therefore so unappealing that their complicated love relationship full of setbacks and adolescent -free -staged love scenes (preferably in the pool and with lardy pop songs) is simply cold. A new, supposedly romantic scene at the fireplace, in which Nick cultural T-shirts with a cinema cover-such as the imprint “Save Ferris”, is really annoying compared to the Spanish original, an allusion to the cult classic “Ferris makes blue” – burned. The associated rich decadence, which the film celebrates subliminal and disgusting again and again, should be particularly angry here.
Conclusion: The illegal boxing matches are new. But otherwise the unnecessary remake “Culpa Mia – My Fault: London” has hardly any noticeable impulses. When it comes to racing car madness in the final, the new edition even clearly draws the shorter one-and the local color of the new title-giving setting is largely unused.