This nice musical is not for lovers of Hollywood Musicals

Rating: 6/10 (10 May 2007)

Music & Lyrics is a Musical Comedy is from Warner Bros., a studio known for pleasant musical comedies NOT great one & only rare good ones. This is not one of the good ones even.
The Director Marc Lawirence also wrote the screenplay,he must have seen a Doris Day, Gordon MacCrae musical & thought it would be fun to do a modern version.
He did find 2 STARS --Hugh Grant & Drew Barrymore., He apparently forgot neither are singers. He also forgot to have name supporting actors in the other roles.
When Doris & Gordon were making films, the supporting players were Jack Carson, Eve Arden & Janis Paige (all name performers) & maybe a few other names or new faces.
The supporting cast in Music & Lyrics are unknowns & probably will stay that way.
To this films credit tho,, the musical numbers are performed live & the songs are good.
The cast tries vainly to do a good job & some scenes are very funny, a few however are very silly & or make no sense.
If this film were a film from 50-60 yrs ago the rating would be about the same,
It is a nice pleasant musical comedy,that you will forget you saw very quickly.
Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 74 points (out of 100) IMDb 6 out of 10)