Cute and sweet; some clothes a little too vulgar for children to see

Rating: 9/10 (16 June 2007)

I liked the Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore pairing in this movie. I saw four Drew movies this week: Music and Lyrics in the theater, and the rest on TV: Ever After, Riding in Cars with Boys, Never Been Kissed, and number 5 (a little of) Boys on the Side. I notice in this movie Drew is getting older, and so is Hugh Grant. So are the rest of us. But I digress . . .
Drew has twice played a writer in these movies: in Music and Lyrics, and in Riding in Cars with Boys. I think she pulls it off well.
Hugh's bumping and grinding reminds me of Mick Jagger, and may in fact be a parody.
I pretty much liked the whole movie, except where the young kids saw Cora in very abbreviated clothing. That was a little embarrassing.
The story of the weight loss business of Drew's sister seemed to be a sub-story not fully developed, yet it had to stay in the background due to the main story being how Drew and Hugh collaborated on the music and lyrics they wrote == hence the name of this movie, obviously.
I think Drew looks like her great uncle and great aunt, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, who in their youth looked a lot like the Drew of today. I have seen some very young Ethel Barrymore photos, and the resemblance is sometimes uncanny.
Well, enough said. I always like Drew movies and Hugh movies. Where do these two go from here? They seem to respect each other a lot in the interviews I have read about this movie, and I hope they team up again.
9/10