Passable old-fashioned romantic comedy.

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2007)

I'll confess that the only reason I saw this movie, at all, was due to an early matinée showing of "Zodiac" being already sold out. But, once I got into the story, it was surprisingly pretty good!
Not knee-slapping hysterical, mind you. In fact, a lot of the intended jokes made cringe rather than laugh. But, I loved the faux-Eighties music video that opened and closed the story. In many ways, I still think the genuine articles were more entertaining than some of the current stuff aired on MTV, nowadays!
And, it's almost impossible to dislike Drew Barrymore's performance as a hypochondriac plant-sitter whose talent for poetry is matched only by her unrequited crush for her snobbish ex-college professor/boyfriend.
Brad Garrett is also pretty funny as Hugh Grant's DJ/manager. Haley Bennett satirizes Generation-X divas with twice as much accuracy as Pink. And, Grant himself all-but steals the show as a heterosexual version of George Michael trying to make a come-back.
All told, I liked it a lot better than I initially thought I would.