Very Surprising...

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2004)

I read this book and I loved it, I didn't get why I loved it, the story wasn't that great, I guess it was the characters that did it for me. Anyway, I thought this movie would suck because they changed stuff from the book(not really big things, but things that i thought mattered none-the-less). Like the location, in the book it takes place in England, in the movie, Chicago. And in the book the top five all-time desert island break-ups list was a bit different, anyway, I still don't get why I liked it that much. I mean I'm not a big John Cusack fan or anything, and that was the first movie I saw with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Jack Black was great though, I don't think I would have even bothered with this movie if they had anyone other than him to play the part of Barry, it just works! Anyway, this definetly makes my top five all-time favorite movies about failing musicians list ;). It seriously does though.