It’s more fun than a Spandau Ballet/Tears for Fears concert circa 1985, and I mean that in a good way.
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02/20/07
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Music and Lyrics (2007)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:26
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Music & Lyrics is a light and pleasant romantic comedy that succeeds because of the considerable charm of its co-stars. The music segments featuring Hugh Grant are worth the price of admission.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: , Romance, Theatrical Release, Relationships, Singers, Composers, Musicians
Theatrical Release:Feb 14, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $50,514,047
Synopsis: Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) is a cynical and self-deprecating former pop idol (the hilarious opening video introduces his '80s new wave band Pop!) who is now playing the nostalgia circuit, but has... [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant, Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnston
Director: Mark Lawrence
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Reviews for Music and Lyrics
Top CriticLight, sweet and agreeably confident
02/20/07
Top CriticI don't think the ending is up to the rest of the movie, but Grant and Barrymore are great together, and the movie has both zing and song.
02/15/07
Top CriticDrew Barrymore is that rare movie starlet who can handle the comedy end of romantic comedy, but she coasts through her underwritten role as a goofy plant sitter recruited by Grant to write his lyrics.
02/15/07
Top CriticWhat Grant lacks in credibility as a lover he makes up for in eagerness to please. He wickedly skewers the music of the 1980s -- he sings! he dances! -- while at the same time reminding us of the cruel reality of disposable pop stardom.
02/14/07
Top CriticGrant strikes precisely the right note with regard to Alex's career: He's too intelligent not to be a little embarrassed, but he's far too brazen to feel anything like shame.
02/14/07
Top CriticAfter the plethora of alleged comedies we’ve been getting lately, this feel-fine rom-com with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore is a perfect warm-hearted, heart-shaped antidote to the winter blahs.
02/14/07
Top CriticMore substantial than a sugary treat, this crunchy rom-com with Hugh Grant as a has-been popster and Drew Barrymore as a never-was poet (they collaborate on a hit song) is simply irresistible.
02/14/07
Top CriticPaper dolls have more depth.
02/14/07
Top CriticToo bad director Lawrence tends to hit you over the head with the jokes in his script.
02/14/07
Top CriticGrant is as smarmily sarcastic as ever, but Barrymore constantly pulls him back. Despite her record number of bad role choices, she may be the warmest comedy actress around, and you can't help rooting for her.
02/14/07
Top CriticWhen the movie zooms in on their fruit-and-nutcake relationship, it's adorable, too.
02/14/07
Top CriticMost of the musical numbers, including the central song, are unexpectedly catchy and believable. Thanks for that goes to songwriter Adam Schlesinger of the band Fountains of Wayne.
02/14/07
Top CriticAs Hugh Grant ages, something is becoming clear: The actor's most compelling attribute is not his floppy forelock but the vein of charming self-loathing that has always been pulsing under his masterfully mussed-up hair.
02/14/07
Top CriticEvery Valentine's Day should be blessed with a confection as fluffy, light and satisfying as Music and Lyrics, a date movie filled with laughs and tunes and nothing too terribly serious to say.
02/14/07
Top CriticMusic and Lyrics is also given buoyancy by the pitch-perfect songs composed by Adam Schlesinger, the talented pop ironist of the band Fountains of Wayne.
02/14/07
Top CriticThe movie passes muster as a corny, mildly witty and often bouncy diversion.
02/14/07
Top CriticThe movie is as disposable as the music in it. But movie theaters need filler, too -- and this is the best kind.
02/14/07
Top CriticIn the end, the movie's just the kind of enjoyably empty-headed fluff it celebrates and mocks.
02/14/07
Top CriticMusic and Lyrics aspires to nothing more than the competent dispensing of mild amusement and easy emotion.
02/14/07
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