a musical disguised as a romantic comedy

Rating: 9/10 (22 August 2009)

Music and Lyrics is a musical disguised as a romantic comedy. That's right; Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore have given us a musical.
Not a big musical, crowded with production numbers (though there are a couple of those, come to think of it) but a sweet, quiet, almost old-fashioned musical. It takes place mostly in one room with two people at a piano, trying to write a great new song in two days.
It follows standard musical formula of "Boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy sings a song and gets girl back." Basically, MGM would have quite happily produced Music and Lyrics 65 years ago...For more of my review http://www.helium.com/items/1433416-music-and-lyrics-review