Music and Lyrics [Blu-ray] | ![Music and Lyrics [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/718b6FKXqXL._SL500_.gif)
| Director: Marc Lawrence
Actors: Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett, Hugh Grant, Campbell Scott, Kristen Johnston
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 15783
Format: Ac-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: 11279
UPC: 085391112792
EAN: 0085391112792
ASIN: B000PGTETW
Theatrical Release Date: February 14, 2007
Release Date: June 12, 2007
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Our search for a 2007 romantic comedy that would make us laugh and cry is over October 22, 2007
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Since I complained that neither my wife nor I were reduced to tears by the end game of "Catch and Release," our previous romantic comedy, I can tell you right off the bat that we both cried at the appropriate moment in "Music and Lyrics," which is reason enough to round up on this early 2007 film. But writer-director Marc Lawrence (who scripted both of the "Miss Congeniality" movies) knows that the climax of a good romantic comedy requires a grand gesture of love. We know this not only because he provides one, but also because he sets it up by having a character point out the way you know when somebody is the one for you is when they do something that illustrates passion.
You have to think that Hugh Grant's funny dance through 10 Downing Street in "Love Actually" was an implicit audition for his role here as Alex Fletcher, the keyboard player and composer from the 70's hit group Pop, and if you are looking for a parallel in real world music history I would say think Andrew Ridgeley after George Michaels went solo and you are in the ballpark. We are introduced to Pop at the height of their popularity and the music video of their signature song "Pop Goes My Heart," where Alex and his Colin Thompson (Scott Porter) cavort in post-disco glam pop style. But that was then and now Alex is being courted for an episode of "Battle of the 70's Has-Beens," while Colin is a successful solo act (another reason I round up on this movie is that it refrains from Alex ever meeting Colin, which is a tired cliche in such films). Then Alex has a meet with Cora Corman (Haley Bennett), the pop diva of the moment, who wants him to write a new duet and do it by the end of the week. However, Alex does music but not lyrics, as evidenced by his unsuccessful solo album and has not bothered to find another lyricist to work with since Colin broke up the band.
Alex's agent, Chris Riley (Brad Garrett), finds a lyricist but clearly it is not going to work. The day is saved by the serendipity that Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), who is substituting for the usual person who comes in and waters his plants, is apparently a natural lyricist. All that have to do is write a hit song by Friday and not fall for each other in the process. Of course they will get things half right, which is exactly how we want things to play out. Fortunately the songs by both Lawrence and songwriter Adam Schlesinger make it easy to believe Sophie and Alex could write beautiful music together. This will bring us to the inevitable bump in the road when Sophie discovers that the commercial aspects of songwriting are not as much fun as the creative aspects. Sophie has here own more recent past in that her last boy friend, Sloan Cates (Campbell Scott), was inspired by her to make Sophie the title character of a best selling novel that has made him rich and famous while leaving her with a scarred psyche and a fragile ego.
As always Barrymore is cute and sweet, continuing to establish herself as the queen of current romantic comedy even when her co-star is not Adam Sandler (who would have thought they would be the best romantic couple of the decade?). She also plays it straight while Grant, who not only can sing to go along with the aforementioned dancing, but also gets most of the laughs with his sense of self-parody and superb comic timing, which reminds me to point out that another reason for rounding up on "Music and Lyrics" is that this movie made us laugh out loud (intentionally, no less), than any film we have seen in the last year. I also like that twice I was convinced that Alex was about to sing a song that he had written setting Sophie's college poems to music, but both times I was wrong and both times Lawrence (despite spelling his name funny) came up with something better (not to mention a nice homage to "Singing in the Rain"). There are just so many things working for "Music and Lyrics" that the rough spots here and there fade into insignificance by the time the final credits roll. Speaking of which, be sure to watch the first half of the end credits where we get to watch the film's opening music video again, but this time given the "pop up" treatment that provides the film's final gaggle of gags.
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