This stylized romantic comedy offers limited, largely synthetic rewards.
Comment
11/14/03
Rate this Movie 
Anything But Love (2003)
38
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work
Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:13
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 14, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $58,739
Synopsis: ANYTHING BUT LOVE, which celebrates the style and sensibility of the 50’s Technicolor musicals, tells a contemporary love story of a young woman choosing between the life she wants and the dreams... [More]
Starring: Isabel Rose, Andrew McCarthy, Cameron Bancroft, Eartha Kitt
Director: Robert Cary
Get This Movie
Reviews for Anything But Love
From the couch on a lazy Sunday afternoon, that wouldn't be so bad, but when we've been summoned to the cinema, we expect something more.
11/14/03
The script is a sappy '40s melodrama transported into the 21st century, where it just creaks.
11/14/03
Top CriticThis is a micro-budgeted tribute to Hollywood musicals of the '40s and '50s that's all the more endearing for its flaws.
11/14/03
Top CriticClick to read the article
11/14/03
[T]he wonderful standards soundtrack can’t disguise the lack of chemistry between Rose and either of her leading men...
11/14/03
A low-budget valentine to big-budget Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and '50s, this affectionate homage to dreamy movie romances is a sweet-natured charmer in its own right.
11/13/03
The thin story -- a 32-year-old woman who lives at home with Mom, sings in the bar at an airport motel, and lives in a fantasy world of musicals -- feels less romantic than pathetic.
11/13/03
Top CriticAfter viewing this wan, though heartfelt tribute to the golden age of MGM musicals, you might be left wanting anything but this.
11/13/03
The results are earnest but completely resistable, more borscht-belt Cabaret than My Big Fat New York Tryout.
11/13/03
Top CriticAnything but unpredictable, but it is a pleasant, good-natured picture that struggles, gallantly if vainly, to recapture the style and sensibility of a studio musical on the severely limited budget of an independent film.
11/13/03
Top CriticIt succeeds because it dares to take its people and their dreams seriously, with a gently humorous affection, instead of merely sending them up, and because it clearly is taking place in the Manhattan of here and now and not in some vague time warp.
11/13/03
Top Critic[Rose] has little presence as an actress ... and her unremarkable voice seems better suited for singing corporate jingles than the Great American Songbook.
11/13/03
[Rose] isn't enough of a draw to make the formula worth recycling.
11/13/03
Top CriticA schmaltz-laden romantic comedy peppered with a few uninteresting musical fantasy sequences.
11/11/03
If this is such a cheesy, derivative movie, why did I watch it twice with such delight?
11/11/03
Well points for trying, thumbs down for me.
11/11/03
Top Critica modest plea to revive the genre
11/07/03
Features lush arrangements and lovely singing by co-scripter and star Isabel Rose, but never quite comes to life on its own terms.
11/07/03
Click to read the article
11/02/03
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
MSN's Year in Review 
Take a look at MSN's choices for the Top 10 films of 2009.
40 Best Films of the 2000s
Last week, Moviefone offered us their worst films of the 2000s. Now see their 40 best!
Tarantino's Characters
Hollywood.com explores why QT's characters resonate so well with audiences.
Top 10 Movies of 2009
TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.
Top 20 of the Decade
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
IGN RSS Feeds