Why Should We Bother to Be Adults When We Have Kids to Do It for Us?

Rating: 4/10 (8 December 2011)

"Crazy Stupid Love" is about 20 minutes of a terrific little romantic comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone surrounded by another 100 minutes of borderline dreadful romantic comedy starring everybody else. Gosling and Stone just ooze charm and screen presence, and their chemistry together is so natural and infectious that I simply could not tolerate any part of the movie that shifted away from them to deal with Steve Carrell and Julianne Moore, two actors I usually like but who are stuck in a cliché, middle-aged-couple-in-midlife-crisis storyline. Add this film to the alarmingly growing list of Hollywood films in which adults have forgotten how to be adults and only remember how to be from watching and listening to their kids.
"Crazy Stupid Love" is tolerable up to a point, but by the end it's simply too long and too stupid to leave any impression other than that it was a big fat dud.
Grade: C