Crazy, Stupid, Love is Just That ***

Rating: 7/10 (23 June 2012)

Steve Carell is getting to be like another Hugh Grant in movies. He is constantly being put into a variety of situations with women in all of his films.
I have to admit that this film is humorous when Julianne Moore,his wife, asks him for a divorce and this sets in motion a whirlwind of a comedy. Going to a bar, he learns to pick up girls from Ryan Gosling, who sheds his usual tough-guy image in films and turns in a gem of a funny performance.
It just becomes a story of coincidental love with the inappropriate people, such as your son's 8th grade English teacher-Marisa Tomei and Gosling unknowingly falling for Carell's 17 year old daughter.
Everything seems to come to a favorable conclusion at Carell's son's graduation. I think by then the cast themselves had graduated into maturity.