Wait a second: Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore play a composer and lyricist who write a pop song together, and we’re supposed to believe Drew Barrymore is the witty one good with words?
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Hmmm, are you saying composers aren’t witty and good with words?
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Hee hee hee. (AJ is a composer.) No, no, no, of course they can be! It’s just that if you have a setup that the witty composer needs someone to be the lyricist for his music, you might want to find someone who can sell “witty and poetic” a lot better than Drew Barrymore can. DB is really good in some stuff where she plays sweet or fun, like 50 First Dates. But she doesn’t sell me on “effortlessly lyrical.”
The movie has plenty of other problems too. This is just one of them. 🙂
Well, I think it might sound the death knell for Hugh Grant’s leading man-dom, for awhile. Primarily because a friend of mine said, “Let’s go see that new Drew Barrymore movie — I just love her!” And I looked it up and noticed that Hugh Grant was in it.
This is the same friend that dragged me to The Man Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, among others, because Hugh Grant was in them.
Ouch.