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07/16/03
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Down With Love (2003)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:17
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Looks great, but Zellweger and McGregor have no chemistry together, and the self-satisfied, knowing tone grates.
Theatrical Release:May 16, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $20,186,516
Synopsis: DOWN WITH LOVE is an old-fashioned romantic comedy with a twist, starring "Chicago's" Oscar-nominated Renee Zellweger and "Moulin Rouge's" Ewan McGregor. Putting a hip spin on the golden age of the... [More]
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson
Director: Peyton Reed
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Reviews for Down With Love
Top CriticI think it compares favorably with Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back in its well-timed gags and verbal dexterity.
05/23/03
Top CriticWe want to love it, but like a Rock Hudson rake, we keep finding fault in its allure. We want to hate it, but like Doris Day, we finally can't say no.
05/21/03
Top CriticI love this film.
05/19/03
Top CriticThis pitch-perfect imitation of a Rock Hudson-Doris Day nonsex comedy features Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor and a passel of visual delights. But why should we care?
05/17/03
Top CriticIt's a cute premise, and several co-stars help keep the fun going for a while.
05/16/03
Top CriticMcGregor is divine as Catcher Block and Zellweger plays her part to pouty perfection.
05/16/03
Top CriticA very smart, very shrewd movie, and the smartest, shrewdest thing about it is the way it masquerades as just a fluffy comedy, a diversion, a trifle.
05/16/03
Top CriticBoth leads bounce and bubble. But they seem too often to be playing at being 1960s archetypes instead of rendering characters.
05/16/03
Top CriticIt underlines everything with a smirk and a wink and a too-hip- for-school swagger, its affection for its genre no more honest than the adoration some people profess for tiki lights or Bobby Darin.
05/16/03
Top CriticIt's too dull and hackneyed for the satirical spoof it intends to be, and the actors and director miss the charm and humor of the old Doris Day movies by a margin so wide it doesn't add up to a respectful homage, either.
05/16/03
Top CriticThis might have worked if love triumphed, but mush gets lost in the crush of labored mocking and gleeful artifice.
05/16/03
Top CriticThe complete lack of authentic feeling in this film as well as its obsession with period without finding any meaning in that period doom it.
05/16/03
Top CriticWhile you were hypnotized by the bossa nova and Renee Zellweger's form-fitting pink Givenchy and the rat-a-tat dialogue of the gender wars, the writers and the director tricked you into caring about the plot.
05/16/03
Top CriticNo better or worse than the movies that inspired it, but that is a compliment, I think.
05/16/03
Top CriticI'm unembarrassed to say I enjoyed myself a lot, even if this giddily retro Renee Zellweger-Ewan McGregor vehicle shifts tone the way a bicycle skips gears.
05/16/03
Top CriticMakes the fatal mistake of so much middlebrow satire: It becomes that which it mocks.
05/16/03
Top CriticThe inventiveness doesn't work. It's dragged down by Zellweger and McGregor's self-consciousness, as they mug and overact their way through a film whose style relies on lightness of touch.
05/16/03
Top CriticReed never quite decides whether to play the genre straight or spoof it. He winds up doing some of both, maybe not enough of either.
05/16/03
Top CriticIt's like a Saturday Night Live sketch on a $60 million budget.
05/16/03
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September 15, 2005:
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