Bring back POP!

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2008)

Music & Lyrics is fun and enjoyable entertainment that hits above its weight in the heavily saturated and often mediocre territory of the romantic-comedy.
Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore are notably well casted and this enables the film to flow rather well. The film does linger here and there but it is a well-judged satirical look at the music industry.
The music is great fun! 80s at its stereotypical, cheesy best... The intro track 'PoP! Goes My Heart' and 'Way Back Into Love' are surprisingly good and its a shame no original song nomination was forthcoming for either.
Music & Lyrics does not pretend to be anything other than another rom-com and yet it surpasses itself in this regard. The film is a happy, feel-good picture and I for one could not stop tapping my feet long after the music had ceased.