Music & Lyrics

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2011)

This is the fourth time I see the comedy romance movie Music and Lyrics, but this is the first time I actually see it to write about the movie. For me, it was a pleasure watching this movie all over again, since comedy romance films are my favorite and, I consider myself a big fan of Drew Barrymore. I have seen most of her movies I love the way she acts "sweet and innocent" when it comes to comedy romance films. This American actress has not only started in over 50 movies, including a commercial for puppy food at the age of 11 months in 1975, becoming one of Hollywood's most recognized child actors, but also in the 1980s hit movie "ET". She has directed, screen written, produced, and model on several occasions. What I most liked about this movie in particular is that destiny was the cause of joining "Hugh Grant" as Alex Fletcher and "Drew Barrymore" as Sophie Fisher. On the other hand, we have Hugh Grant, an English actor and film producer who had his first leading role in 1987 in the movie, "Maurice". His break through performance though was in the 1994 film "Four Wedding's and a Funeral". Since then, he has started in over 30 films including my favorite "Nine Months" from 1995.
The writer of this movie is Mark Lawrence, who himself directed the film in 2007. Marc Lawrence also composed a sound track for this movie titled "Love Autopsy". It's a short comic sound track, but it gives the film a very special touch. Lawrence has both written and produced movies like "Two Weeks Notice" (2002), and "Did You Hear about the Morgan's?" (2009) both in which "Grant" has started as the main character. Both these films are from the genre, comedy romance. This American screenwriter and film producer has also written films such as "The Out-of-Towners" (1999), "Miss. Congeniality" (2000) and "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous" (2005). His most recent movie is "Music and Lyrics" (2007).
This film first came to the big screen on February 14, 2007. If I would've seen it on that date, I would've expected nothing less from this comedy romantic story. Like Tom Long from the Detroit News said, "Every valentines day should be blessed with a confection as fluffy, light and satisfying as Music & Lyrics, a cute movie filled with laughs and tunes and nothing too terribly serious to say". I couldn't agree with him more, these two characters, Grant as Alex Fletcher and Barrymore as Sophie Fisher live an adventure which at the end leads them to fall in love with each other. Even though it seems as just another love story, I perceived this love story very different from others that I have seen. I think this story was very original and not repetitions of other movies in which they only change the characters, but the story line is pretty much the same. This film brought back fond memories from my childhood in the 80's. I couldn't help but to go back in time and realize how much things have changed; from our cloths, music, and style of dancing. I must admit, it was a fun journey.
Stephen Hunter from the Washington Post says, "I don't think the ending is up to the rest of the movie, but Grant and Barrymore are great together, and the movie has both, zing and song". I agree with Hunter, when you have two very talented actors like Grant and Barrymore you can't help but have a great movie, but ending with the song that they both wrote was a must. The song played a crucial role but ending with this romantic melody titled "Way Back in Love" gave the movie the final twist. Like in any movies when you have a man, and a woman faced with a problem, falling in love is inevitable. What gives this movie the perfect ending is the song they wrote together because that's exactly what happens with Fletcher and Fisher; they fall in love all over again.