The Movie I Hate To Love

Rating: 8/10 (23 September 2005)

For awhile I resented this movie for most of the reasons people have posted.
Of course, it glancingly addresses subjects that could have been examined much more in-depth. It poses (not much, but a little) as being generation defining. What disappointed me most on my first viewing was how glibly it treated the whole psychopharmacutical issue; it kind of taught this weird lesson, like, Go off your drugs and within about two days Natalie Portman will fall for you and everything will be okay! So much of the young generation today is medicated by shrinks, both wrongfully and rightfully, that I was actually annoyed that such a smart movie would take such a dumb, simplistic approach.
Then I watched it again and I realized: Oh, it's a Comedy.
This movie is just damn funny - Consistently funny from beginning to end. Good comedic performances, good comedic writing.
I recommend this movie with the disclaimer "Just look at it in the context that it's a comedy."