Sing Along with this Romantic Comedy (maybe laugh a little less).

Rating: 7/10 (6 June 2007)

Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore take us on the romantically comedic ride of their coincidental meeting and accident-ridden relationship.
I can only describe this movie, and the millions of other films like it, as cute and delightful, but not in an overly enthusiastic way. A cute story with fun characters and an up beat atmosphere, but certainly not cinematic gold. However, I am perfectly aware that this was never the intended goal of the filmmakers, so when reviewing movies such as this I'm always hesitant. Do I look at it completely critically and grade it on par with all other movies ever, in which it would never come close or do I take it for what it was intended to be by the filmmakers, just a fun two hour date movie, and give it a thumbs up for completing it's goal? I don't know. All I know is that I feel much better about myself after watching stupid comedy's than I do after watching some deep meaningful drama, just physically, I don't need an aspirin afterwords. I wont make a definite decision now; I'll just go with the flow I suppose. But I can't ever completely deny the small place the romantic comedy holds in my heart.
I found the plot base to definitely be unique, I never knew how people went about writing songs, and after watching this I can at least pretend like I do, even if that's not actually how it happens. Otherwise though, I felt it had the usual romantic comedy plot twists and I didn't find myself ever totally caught off guard, which I must say is something I happen to enjoy in a film once in a while, so no points there for Music & Lyrics.
I found most of the characters to be charmingly entertaining. Kristen Johnson's character as the Popz obsessed fan was great, and I really wish she would do even more acting, I think she's great. Brad Garret also played a perfectly depressing talent agent. Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore were there usual romantic comedy-selves. Drew's character was a very small stretch for her and there was absolutely ZERO stretch for Hugh Grant (Playing the stuck-upish character who is brought back down to earth by the love interestnothing new for Hughie). They were entertaining nonetheless.
I absolutely LOVED the soundtrack for this movie. The songs they made up for the "80's pop group" were perfect and the music video was spot on with the "creepy makes no sense" style of the 80's music videos. The end song I also found to be really cute, and definitely appropriate, it made me feel warm and fuzzy which I suppose is the ultimate goal of any movie like this. I tried to download to some of the songs because they were just that catchy; I'm still working on it. Let me know if you can find them.
Overall a very cute movie, as far as Romantic comedies go it was one of the better ones. Not a complete waste of my time, and if you want an un-depressing, relaxing evening why not check it out, you might get a great song stuck in your head too.