(CNN) Netflix keeps churning out romantic comedies, often relying on the smallest of wrinkles to distinguish them. In the case of "Always Be My Maybe," it's clearly a vehicle for Ali Wong and Randall Park, who also hold writing and producing credits on this relatively bland concoction, which blends a whole lot of ingredients and one welcome sprinkle of Keanu Reeves.

It's obviously nice to see a rom-com built around Asian-American leads, with "Maybe" coming after the breakout box-office success of "Crazy Rich Asians," which starred Park's "Fresh Off the Boat" co-star, Constance Wu.

In addition, the film marks the feature directing debut of that show's producer, Nahnatchka Khan, and what amounts to an extended cameo by Reeves, who temporarily invests the whole exercise with a jolt of goofball energy that almost seems borrowed from another movie.

At its core, the film tells you pretty much everything worth knowing in the title (inspired, clearly, by the Mariah Carey song "Always Be My Baby"), in chronicling the story of Sasha (Wong) and Marcus (Park), childhood friends who separate on bad terms, only to come back together 15 years later.

In the intervening years, Sasha has become a well-known celebrity chef, so much so that Marcus' admiring dad (James Saito) refers to her as "our own Asian Oprah." Marcus, meanwhile, is working a more conventional job with his father, while still harboring dreams of playing in a band.

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