Music and Lyrics [Blu-ray]

Music and Lyrics [Blu-ray] Review

Every few years, a musical comedy comes along that perfectly nails a musical era. The late 70s would be "Spinal Tap". The 90s would be "Singles". And here, ladies & gentlemen of the 80s generation, we have "Music and Lyrics".

I don't know if pre-80s or post-80s people would understand the humour, but gawd I was in stitches from the beginning. The film starts with a frighteningly accurate parody of an 80s pop video: complete with plinky synthesizers, moussed hair, atrocious 80s dancing (you know the moves I'm talking about), slutty nurses with grand cleavage, and men with pants that are so tight you can tell their religion. If this description stirs up any high school memories, then this is the movie for you.

People call this a romantic comedy, which it is, but I think the real comedy lies in the cultural satire. Hugh Grant plays the aging popstar "Alex", an ex-80s glamboy who never quite grew up. Over the years he's been reduced to playing highschool reunions and Six Flags themeparks, always eliciting orgasmic screams from the middle-aged women in the crowd but never taken seriously in the real world. Then one day he gets the chance to write a new hit song for a modern pop diva, but he needs a lyricist to make it happen. Enter Drew Barrymore as "Sophie" whose lyric writing skills are only topped by her neurotic behaviour. Instant comedy, my friends.

But really, the plot is almost irrelevant. The point of this film is--in the spirit of Spinal Tap--to mock the silliness of what we all were but are too embarrassed to admit, now that we're "grown up". My fellow refugees from the 80s, this is your catharsis, a way of exorcising all the 80s demons from your closets. You laugh at the screen, but you're actually laughing at yourselves & loving every minute.

Both Hugh & Drew deliver great, believable performances, and the script is fast paced & witty like an old Katharine Hepburn / Cary Grant picture. But what really made this a great film are the riotous performances by the supporting characters: Brad Garrett ("Everybody Loves Raymond"), Kristen Johnston ("3rd Rock from the Sun"), and the rookie Haley Bennett as the perfect Britney/Shakira pop diva whose songs always seem to have the word "booty" in them. Each of these actors add their own particular quirky comedy to this production.

Don't miss your chance to see this movie. Twice even. And the bonus features on the DVD are a real treat: the Gag Reel (bloopers), Deleted Scenes, and The Making Of featurette. Especially if you were born between the years of 1965 and 1975, you must see this movie immediately.

Music and Lyrics [Blu-ray] Feature

• ISBN13: 0085391112792
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Music and Lyrics [Blu-ray] Overview

First you're hot, then you're not...and then you're Alex Fletcher (HUGH GRANT). So when the sizzlingest tween-queen on the charts asks the has-been '80s pop sensation to write her a song, he grabs for another chance at stardom. Problem: Alex can say it with music, but he sure can't say it with words. Enter Sophie Fisher (DREW BARRYMORE), his beguiling if quirky plant lady, who has a green thumb for lyrics. Together, they go after songwriting success -- and discover that if you want to write the perfect love song, it helps to fall in love. With Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore at the keyboard and Marc Lawrence (Two Weeks Notice) directing, Music and Lyrics is a witty, wacky romantic comedy that faces the music...and laughs!

Music and Lyrics [Blu-ray] Specifications

Music and Lyrics is frothy and sweet, like the top of a perfect cappuccino shared a deux. Hugh Grant is a self-professed "happy has-been," playing his befuddled, adorable persona more spot-on than he has since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Alex, former member of an '80s pop band who years later is playing at water parks and high school reunions, he's settled into a life of lesser expectations. Drew Barrymore, quietly radiant, is Sophie, the underachieving girl Friday who arrives to water--make that overwater--Alex's plants--and to explode him out of that comfy rut. If the plot's a bit farfetched, it matters not, since the two lead characters are so likable--and make such beautiful music together. Big bonus: the supportive role of Kristen Johnston as Rhonda, Sophie's older sis (and longtime Alex fan) whose hilarious performance threatens to steal the show whenever she's onscreen. (The owner of a chain of successful weight-loss centers, Rhonda tries to comfort a rattled Sophie: "Want to do some stress eating?") The film also marks the remarkable debut of Haley Bennett, who plays a pop star of Britney/Cristina proportions with deadpan sincerity radiating through her skimpy outfits and mega-extensions. As Alex and Sophie work on crafting musical magic, something else is taking hold. It's music to the ears of anyone needing a sweet romantic comedy that hits all the right notes. --A.T. Hurley

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