While at core, formulaic love comedy, it does have its shining moments...

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2007)

When looking at the posters and previews of Music and Lyrics, I knew it was going to be a standard Love Comedy, but with an angle concerning music. I was right... kind of.
I watched this along with my sister, her classmates and school mates, and this movie gave me the impression it wasn't trying to impress people with frilly dress, huge names, or even corny jokes. It was showing itself off, as it is, and it worked well.
Hugh Grant, while I haven't seen him in movies for a while, was quite impressive along with Drew Berrymore. There was chemistry, yes, but not over-the top or overly realistic chemistry, but just enough to convince that it could work. He delivered some of his lines quite funnily without being cheesy or unconvincing.
Drew Berrymore works well as a rather ditzy and funny regular girl who is gifted in writing poems and lyrics. I liked her performance here better then the last movie of her I watched (Charlie's Angels Full Throttle) and like Grant, could deliver funny acts/lines naturally.
Haley Bennet (who plays Cora), while wasn't really a main part of the film, made me laugh. The way she portrayed as one of the top pop stars of the world, while acting like a very eccentric and showing her body movements (in a good way) got me to laugh, especially when her music reminds me of Britney Spears' and other pop stars out there. But she also had more character than that, able to appreciate music in her own right... XD though the way she "butchered" it made me laugh again.
There are a few problems though in this film... though its probably just nit picking. The plot itself, while sounds sound, the way it went there was rather quite jagged. Drew and Hugh's characters met because the former is hired to water the latter's plants... while I can say its plausible, there could have been a more impressive way for them to meet.
The second thing is that it was rather predictable as all love comedies. Guy meets girl, go out for a while, get to know each other better... then there will be problems... a slight break, and in the end, they get back together. I even enumerated, hoping it wasn't the case, but no dice.
It was an average movie... it just had some decent music, lyrics, funny moments, and decent plot. With decent chemistry, and everything that is decent... its just that. Decent.
7/10.