524th Review: Easily the best rom-com of 2012 and better than that

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2013)

SLP is a very well-judged, beautifully acted and just plain entertaining slice of rom-com. With an outstanding ensemble team this
works - it entertains, and uncommonly for a rom-com, it makes us use our brains and not just out hearts.
The two damaged protagonists are just the right side of crazy, more deeply heartbroken and mad at it than psychiatrically gone, and as we share their journey we do so taking a little of ourselves with them.
This really is one of my favorite films of the year - and it stands out by a mile in the cinema as being a film about the pursuit of happiness whereas we have a decade of maudlin films this mixes the sorrow and the joy just right.
SLP is worth seeing for the performances and the killer script alone, but it is how it lingers after that will get you. Good movie.