Entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (7 May 2007)

There was a perverse reason for seeing this film. Most of my write ups of the films I've seen this year have been, in the main, quite positive. I wanted to see something that had a better than average chance of being dreadful. Perspective required and all that.
Guess what? "Music And Lyrics" isn't dreadful. In fact I would go so far as to say that it is a great and entertaining movie and totally hit the spot for me this weekend when I needed to laugh.
Yes, it is 20 minutes too long and yes, Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore hardly stretch themselves and can do this kind of stuff in their sleep and yes, it is predictable in the extreme, but it is very funny, Hugh is charming and Drew is gorgeous (I have had long discussions with a certain guy who thinks that Drew is not gorgeous and is actually deformed, but he is obviously is an idiot, because Drew is gorgeous and I will come after anybody who disagrees with me with a gun). There is also a spot on spoof of an 80's pop video for a song "Pop Goes My Heart", at the beginning and end of the movie, and that song will stick in your head for hours afterwards. They should release it. It would be a hit.