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This is an enjoyable bit of fluff. Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore play well off each other, and the has-been angle (he's an 80's pop-star faded into obscurity) is fun. The song (Pop Goes My Love) is actually quite infectious, too. You'll find yourself humming it well after the movie is over.
Playing it at 480p improves the image, but it doesn't compare to a lot of other DVDs that look flawless. This is a great movie, but this DVD doesn't make the movie look its best on my 52 inch LCD. It is pixelated and grainy when upconverted. If you have an HD TV and you love this movie, consider it in blu-ray (I assume it will look much better). I am a huge DVD fan, and I think they generally look wonderful on my big tv, so I was dissappointed with this one.
If you check out his wiki page, he's had quite an impressive career writing, you guessed it: Music & Lyrics.Particularly of note: what bonehead decided against releasing the closing number, "Way Back Into Love", as a single. What a treat for anyone who likes good romantic comedies. Well in almost any romantic comedy, the end result is, of course, always predictable. If the songs had been second rate, this would have been a second rate film.Most of the killer songs were written by some guy named: Adam Schlesinger. Instead they should just have had the screenwriters & songwriters do an audio comentary on how this movie came about. But how the movie gets to that end result is what makes all the difference.I call this movie a masterpiece because it completely delivers on what it's title promises: MUSIC and LYRICS.
Korea.Shame on the stupid producers for wasting even one second making that ridiculous pop Parody included with the extras. I'm amazed at how the critics dismissed this movie - the standard compaint is that it's predictable. "Way Back Into Love" was #1 in Hong Kong, #5 in Japan & Singapore, #11 in S. Almost all the songs in this movie are really good, and perfectly fit into the story of this movie. Most other movies would have just stuck any ole songs into here. The time and money flushed down the sewer on that lame & useless venture should have been saved for the investors.
Whoever made the decision to waste valuable resources on "Pop Goes My Heart", should be blacklisted in Hollywood, and never allowed to work in the industry again.
The Bottom Line:Another film to be added to my burgeoning list of films that peak before 10 minutes have elapsed, (e.g. America's Sweethearts, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) Music & Lyrics begins with a hilariously dead-on parody of 80s music videos but then devolves into a formulaic romance devoid of laughs or charms; I enjoy Hugh Grant a lot and wanted to like this movie, but couldn't find much to appreciate, let alone treasure.2/4
From here on, we can enjoy a typical Hugh Grant love story. He's no longer expected to produce anything and he can rest forever on his past achievements. 80's POP sensation Alex Fletcher is comfortable being known as a 'has-been'; after all, the pressure is off now. a romantic comedy that does not disappoint, even for a few scenes.Anyone who loves Hugh's romantic comedies, I'm thinking NOTTING HILL and TWO WEEKS NOTICE, will be thrilled with this additional installment of the Hugh Grant Love Connection.Quirky, sexy, funny and oh-so-loveable, come on in and have some Hugh on me. Enter Sophie Fisher, the plant water-er and sometime lyricist. She accidentally reveals her talents to Alex as he tries to hammer out a new song for world-wide teenie-bopper sensation CORA (think Miley Cyrus in a thong). You'll leave laughing.Ellen C Maze, author Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider(vampire fiction for the discerning reader)P.S. CORA uses Buddhistic teachings in her songs and employs a gigantic Buddha statue in her stage show, so just letting you know.
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