Music and Lyrics

Music and Lyrics

By Rebecca Redshaw

Refreshing. A movie that can be enjoyed without seeing body parts fly. A movie where you don’t have to cover your ten-year-old’s eyes during the romantic scenes. A movie where you find yourself laughing out loud one moment and squeezing your sweetheart’s hand the next.

Music and Lyrics wasn’t a complete surprise, but close! Marc Lawrence’s script is fun, giving Hugh Grant every opportunity to display his expert comedic timing and allowing Drew Barrymore to be cute without being saccharine.

Music and Lyrics

Basically a two-person romp through the world of recycled pop stars, Music and Lyrics keeps pace with intermittent comedic zingers by Kristen Johnston as a middle-aged fan and Brad Garrett as the agent who keeps his once A-list client busy at D-list events.

But the movie belongs to the Barrymore and Grant. If you’re old enough to remember Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk, you’ll remember the good feeling of going to the movies and having a swell time. If that duo was way before your time, it doesn’t matter. Barrymore and Grant have a good time proving that “everything old is new again.” Welcome back with Music and Lyrics.