The score ruins this movie for me

Rating: 4/10 (14 December 2014)

Oddly, the Zimmer score for this was completely tone-deaf. I'm a Zimmer fan but his score for this was awful and distracting. Soaring, overwrought, orchestral, and completely wrong for this movie. What's funny is ... a couple of the main characters are movie/movie preview score composers. The score is irritating and distracting and belongs more appropriately in a drama or movie with a lot more gravitas. It occurred to me that perhaps when Nancy Meyers told Zimmer that there was a kind of "magic" or spiritual theme with the Santa Ana winds making "anything possible", that perhaps he scored it thinking that really was the main theme of the movie. The whole Santa Ana winds "magic" thing was unnecessary to the story, a non-starter theme, but it seems that the score is trying to force that into the movie.