Tapsearch Com EditorVery brief review: Music & Lyrics
February 28th 2007 00:05
The one-word take: Adequate. It was funny, lighthearted, cute, etc. Just what you'd expect, but it's not like you'll remember it in 10 years.
Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant are predictably amusing, delivering the one-liners well and developing characters that mesh. If you haven't seen the trailers, Grant is a washed-up 80s singer, Barrymore a "born lyricist" he runs into, and they have one week to write a song for pop princess "Cora."
The music disappoints, however. Intro song "Pop! Goes My Heart" is a hilarious take on 80s synth pop, but the track Barrymore and Grant write together is rather lame (albeit featuring respectable lyrics). Also, they're writing for a Britney Spears-like singer/dancer -- who bizarrely blends Buddhism with aggressive sexuality, yet conveys no personality -- but churn out a cheesy modern rock ballad. Considering "Cora" is a the weakest character here, the writers would have been better making the star a singer/sort-of-songwriter like Avril Lavigne.
A song Grant's character writes alone is even worse. Puke.
Bottom line, good date movie, worthwhile for a few laughs. If you're single at the moment, though, you're not missing all that much.
Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant are predictably amusing, delivering the one-liners well and developing characters that mesh. If you haven't seen the trailers, Grant is a washed-up 80s singer, Barrymore a "born lyricist" he runs into, and they have one week to write a song for pop princess "Cora."
The music disappoints, however. Intro song "Pop! Goes My Heart" is a hilarious take on 80s synth pop, but the track Barrymore and Grant write together is rather lame (albeit featuring respectable lyrics). Also, they're writing for a Britney Spears-like singer/dancer -- who bizarrely blends Buddhism with aggressive sexuality, yet conveys no personality -- but churn out a cheesy modern rock ballad. Considering "Cora" is a the weakest character here, the writers would have been better making the star a singer/sort-of-songwriter like Avril Lavigne.
A song Grant's character writes alone is even worse. Puke.
Bottom line, good date movie, worthwhile for a few laughs. If you're single at the moment, though, you're not missing all that much.
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