Music and Lyrics

Music and Lyrics is the latest in a long of Hugh Grant specials, where he plays the smarmy but ultimately delightful English fop, who manages to make a lof of mistakes but still get the girl. OMG I totally just spoiled the ending, but cmon, we all knew it anyway.

In this particular incarnation of the tried and true formula, Hugh Grant is a fading 80s pop star left to do shows at theme parks for middle aged women, and Drew Barrymore is the girl who has come to water his plants who he teams up with to write a song for Cora, the movie's version of Christina Aguilera or Brittney Spears. They end up falling in love, obviously.

I love Hugh Grant. And I love Drew Barrymore. Really I do. But put the two of them together and you have the worst case of lack of onscreen chemistry I have seen in a long time. Unfortunately I could never bring myself ot believe that these two characters would like each other, even considering their delightful quirks. Kiryn pointed out to me that early on, Drew Barrymore's character was made out to be a hypochondriac, which could have made a hilarious sub plot, however it was just ditched about a third of the way through. In fact her character was just outright irritating. Hugh Grant didn't even come out as particularly loveable and damn, he's looking old. The popstar character could have been made into a hilarious charicature, and that was experimented with but it never came through for me.

Some funny moments, but really, i was waiting for this to finish most of the time - it failed to suck me in the way a lot of romantic comedies do (as a light piece of entertainment).

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