This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Rebel Wilson, left, and Liam Hemsworth in a scene from "Isn't It Romantic." (Michael Parmelee/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

What would Valentine’s Day weekend be without a good old-fashioned romantic movie? It doesn’t matter, cause that is not what we are getting. Instead, we are getting  the incredibly sharp and cynical rom-com satire “Isn’t It Romantic?”

The film follows Natalie (Rebel Wilson), a cynical architect who lives in a lousy apartment with her dirty, disobedient dog and doesn’t believe in herself. Despite being an architect, she is treated like “the coffee girl” and refuses to stand up for herself.

Rating: **** (out of 5)

She is blind to the advances of her best friend and co-worker, Josh (Adam Devine). Her rom-com addicted assistant, Whitney (Betty Gilpin), tries to get Natalie to wake up and realize that Josh likes her, but Natalie believes Josh is more interested in the model on the billboard outside her window.

On the way home, Natalie is mugged and then when she escapes her attacker, she runs head first into a steel beam. When she wakes up, she discovers she is stuck in a version of New York that seems to only exist in romantic comedies. The people in her life are now every cliché imaginable. Whitney is now her office rival, her neighbor, Donny (Brandon Scott Jones), is now her over-the-top stereotypical gay best friend. She even hears narration from time to time.

To escape this life, Natalie believes she has to make a man fall in love with her, which doesn’t take long because Blake (Liam Hemsworth), a client of her firm, suddenly becomes attracted to her. The harder she tries to escape the universe, the more she keeps missing the message the universe is trying to send to her.

“Isn’t It Romantic?” is directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, who is known for “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas” and the incredibly smart horror-comedy, “The Final Girls.” With a script by Erin Cardillo, Dana Fox and Katie Silberman, he brings to life a sharp, funny examination of the cheesy romantic comedy genre while being a romantic comedy.

It is sort of how “Scream” is both an examination of slasher movie clichés while actually being a slasher movie.

“Isn’t it Romantic?” is well done. Wilson, who I feel got typecast as her over-the-top Fat Amy character from the “Pitch Perfect” films is more down to earth yet still incredibly funny. She even gets a moment or two to sing. (Considering she is an executive producer on the film, I’m sure the words “I’m not playing Fat Amy in this one” came out of her mouth during negotiations.)

She delivers a great performance has great chemistry with former “Pitch Perfect” co-star Adam Devine. They naturally play off each other well. I’d watch a buddy cop movie with these two as the leads.

Say what you will about romantic comedies, “Isn’t It Romantic?” is created with as much admiration for the genre as it is snark. Whether you are addicted to rom-coms or you turn your nose up at them, you’re going to enjoy this movie. It’s one of the sharpest and funniest films of the year so far.