Two grannies try to throw together their good-looking-but-still-single grandkids in “Make Me Believe,” a seriously bland, barely comic rom-com from Turkey.

It’s a formula film that stumbles badly when it strays from the formula. But it has three stand-out features working in its favor. The 30ish leads — Ayça Aysin Turan and Ekin Koç — are simply beautiful . In the case of TV actress Turan, “unutterably gorgeous” almost covers it. They’re filmed in front of some striking vistas on the vacation-friendly coast near Istanbul.

But the “grandmothers” who set the plot in motion are more or less forgotten, and rather clumsily so, by the filmmakers, who never seem to grasp “The reason we make rom-coms according to formula is that the formula works.”

Sahra and Deniz find themselves summoned to the the Çanakkale coastal homes of their respective grandmothers’ homes (Zerrin Sümer, Yildiz Kültür), ostensibly because of some emergency — “Palpitations!” — or other.

But the upshot is, “You never have time for us any more, unless we say we’re dying!” (in Turkish with subtitles, or dubbed into English).

It’s pretty obvious pretty early on that they’re trying to throw these two, who sort of grew up together, into each other’s arms. Well, it’s obvious to everybody else, but not the two hotties.

They haven’t seen each other “since we were 15,” and judging from the brusque way Deniz speaks to, disdains and ignores Sahra, there’s bad blood, perhaps a failed romance in their past.

He’s irked that she doesn’t remember his name, annoyed at calamities that seem to hit every time he’s in her presence and seriously judgmental about every word out of her mouth or flip of her too-perfect hair.

Sahra starts out with “jerk” and works her way up to “asshole” and finishes with “I hope the likes of you die out.”

Can these two crazy cover models ever make it work?

She’s a fashion mag journalist hoping for a promotion and in need of a Big Win to get it. Landing the elusive photographer who just turned down a big international prize for a cover story might do it. He’s world famous but apparently...never photographed.

His name is “Deniz,” and yet Sahra takes a good, long time to figure out it’s the same guy. Huh.

Sahra launches “Operation Trojan Horse” with her subordinate and bestie (Cagla Imak). Let’s use Deniz’s man-bun bartender pal (Çagri Çitanak) to inveigle our way into Deniz’s good graces and talk him into the gig.

Co-directors Evren Karabiyik Günaydin and Murat Saraçoglu have no flair for staging “Impulsive Romantic Gestures” or making “My Big Secret” scenes pay off.

But they make our stars look stunning, and serve up just enough scenery to remind us of this lovely, underfilmed tourist magnet filming location.

Oddly, not every scenic shot is all that scenic. If you’ve seen one functional, rocks-and-concrete seawall to a working port you’ve seen them all.

The “meet cute” is kind of cute here. But whatever potential our cute couple has in acting cute is nothing compared to what was possible with the abandoned grannies.

As lame as a “Come over and get my kitten out of the tree” scene is, there’s more potential in that than in the many boring arguments contrived and shoved in here to keep our future lovers apart.

Rating: TV-14, a little profanity

Cast: Ayça Aysin Turan, Ekin Koç, Zerrin Sümer, Yildiz Kültür, Çagri Çitanak and Cagla Irmak

Credits: Directed by Evren Karabiyik Günaydin and Murat Saraçoglu, scripted by  Selen Bagci. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:44