Music and Lyrics Review by Zara (3.5 Stars)

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Starring:
Hugh Grant, Zak Orth, Brad Garrett, Aasif Mandvi, Drew Barrymore, Jason Antoon, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Matthew Morrison, Haley Bennett, Scott Porter, Scott Porter, Nicholas Bacon, Andrew Wyatt, Dan McMillan, Brooke Tansley, Tom Foligno

Directed By:
Marc Lawrence

Written By:
Marc Lawrence

Music and Lyrics (2007)

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Movie Review by Zara

April 6th, 2007

Caught in a weak moment?

Everything that I'd heard about this movie (as much as I cared to paid attention to since most of the time I don't read other people's reviews until I've seen the movie myself) added up to this movie being a giant heap of sh*t.

And when it first started, I'll admit that I was pretty sure that it was headed in that direction. Hugh Grant as a former teen idol, pop music sensation from the '80's didn't really ring all that true to me. Most of what is handled within the music industry portion of the movie is weak and feels incredibly phony.

I can understand that was probably what the movie-makers were going for. Trying to make fun of a dynamic in pop culture which is a joke within itself. And this is where the movie fails.

However, there is a good chunk of it straight through the middle when they decide to stop focusing their attention on pointing out the elephant in the room and instead concentrate on the two stars.

Grant isn't some a**hole Lothario this time around, creating instead a character who has seen the highs and lows before him and embracing the mediocre offering that is still being handed to him with a great deal of gratitude rather than scowling animosity towards something that he could have been b*tching about having done him wrong.

Barrymore is again a strange young woman who does strange things. Only this time someone in her character's life decided to come along and exploit those things.

Now, I still think that it might have been just because I am at a weak point in my personal life right now, but I can completely relate to the sh*t that she had to put up with from the ex-beau. The horrible things that were written about her, both because of their one-sided nature and the facets in which that one side was truthful.

Hell, let's just say that I can understand. I've been there.

But most people haven't and so most people would and most likely did see it as her whining about something stupid. I felt for the character and I could see the hows and whys that she and Grant's character came together.

I also like the idea in the line of the song that he composes for her. "Don't write me off just yet."

Wish I could have figured out a way to say that.

But alas...

Not a great movie, it has its faults, but definitely not the crappy movie that other people seem to think it was.

And Kristen Johnson is f*cking great as the sister.

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