Brilliant social comment with lots of laughs

Rating: 9/10 (30 June 2007)

I saw the movie today, on cable TV (PPV), as my wife and I were looking precisely for something light and frivolous, after putting our two girls down for the night (hopefully).
I found it so enjoyable that I came to IMDb to read something about it and write my own review. Here's what I thought: It is romantic-"ish", light, frothy, immensely funny and we DID end up humming the POP song.
But who cares about script depth or goofs?. It is a brilliant critique of today's over-sexed, new age type of artists, and of my generation's (I was born in 1970) and today's annoying and silly idolizing of goof-balls whose only merit is looking sexy and somewhat singing what merchandising has declared the latest "music" (for lack of a better word).
Personally I enjoyed the ridiculous behavior and demeanor of CORA (Brilliantly brought to life by Haley Bennet) that has become the tell-tale sign of today's star singers (?) Hugh Grant's Character is very well put together, complete with that "older-than-his-actual-age" look that somebody who has burnt the candle form both ends one too many times would have. And his one liners are exactly on time and with the perfect intonation to make audiences roar with laughter.
More than a romantic comedy, I would classify this movie as social comment that just so happens to be tremendously hilarious, which can only mean that society today is tremendously hilarious.
I enjoyed it (I think that's the fourth time I say it) even without the pseudo-intellectual comment. The story in its own right is enough to make the watching of this movie a pleasure, but the authors did not leave it at that, they really went the whole way and ridiculed the whole industry in a very non-subtle yet charming way.