I don't have to say again that the both of us are suckers for romantic comedies.
Something about them being easy-going, feel-good flicks that give you a tingle in your heart and a slight guffaw in the tummy. And so what if Hollywood milks the genre dry. They're enough suckers out there to fill the cinema halls, judging by this evening's full house when we went to catch Hugh and Drew's latest Music and Lyric partnership.
Hugh plays Alex Fletcher, an '80s pop group
Has-Been destined to working the Country Fair and Amusement Park circuit singing songs from his band's former chart-topping albums. Incidentally, Alex's ex-band was called Pop! Cheesy =)) When reigning pop-princess Cora Corman (new all-American babe Haley Bennett and herself an ex Pop! groupie and now hybrid Shakira/Britney/Jewel sexpot) asks Alex to write a song for her new album, he panics. But still its a chance too good to pass up. You see Mr Fletcher is good with melodies, but horrible with words. Then enters Sophie Fisher, Alex's part-time plant-lady who comes to his house daily to water his 'vegetation'. The quirky Sophie soon strikes up some chemistry with Alex, using her flair for the written word to pen the lyrics for the amazingly catchy song that the latter has composed for Cora.
The movie works for several reasons. Chiefly because of Hugh's irresistable charm and charisma. He could charm your grandmother off her wheelchair. I mean the plot is nothing to shout about but the scriptwriter(s) must certainly be given brownie points for crafting hilariously witty conversation for both Hugh and Drew. Of course the best one-liners are saved for the floppy-fringed gentleman. But Drew gets her fair share of disarmingly humorous repartee.
Then there are constant reminders of the embarassing '80s, of infectious Synth-pop tunes, tight pants and ugly hair. A walk down memory lane of sorts for the unkers and unties in the audience. Coupled with a number of surprisingly catchy original songs in the movie that are supposed to be sung by Hugh himself. I think he was not lip-synching lah.
Hugh and Drew are very believable as a song-writing duo who eventually fall in love. The thing about Drew is that she may not be your typical case of a sexy
Chio Bu but her quirky kewtness grows on you. The ending is predictably sweet, but somehow a little too simplistic for a movie held together by such witty dialogue.
Not exactly a movie I would tell you to go rush out and catch. But a movie I would certainly reccommend for a nice, Snuggle-on-the-sofa evening with that Significant Other nonetheless.
The title needs some re-working though =))
7.3/10
See
here for POP!'s MTV, PoP Goes My Heart. Hilarious =))
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