A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written lyrics and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days.
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I found Music and Lyrics to be charming and clever.... Hugh Grant gives a great crisp delivery on his very witty lines... good interaction between he and Barrymore, some well-timed jokes and a heartfelt ending make this a nice date movie that did not follow i love the chemistry between us, and I was stride by their love story,now that they were not so young and suffered a lot,but they still stayed true,I am really attached to Drew that kind of girl,which is very loyal and personate
The come back is a great movie which tells a sweet and modern love story.Hugh Grant is hilarious (especially when he starts swinging his hips) Obviously we would all love to see Hugh Grant performing on stage a love song destined to us, what an amazing moment it would be! Drew Barrymore is so lucky.It feels good to reconnect with the 80's, plus the musics are surprisingly very good (I can't stop singing "I said I wasn't gonna lose my head, but then pop! Goes my heaaaarrttt...)I spent a very good moment watching this movie which gives us an idea of how hard can the music industry be.Morality of the story: you never know where and how love can strike!
This movie is about a delightful couple who are writing a song based on Uplifting the heart. Alex Fletcher who is very dedicated to his work Tries his best to convince Sophie Fisher to help him write lyrics. Sophie Fisher is still hung up on her ex-boyfriend and is suffering From a bad relationship. However, this plot of the story is very ironic And this is helping Alex Fletcher who is the protagonist of the movie is indeed helping him in his song. What Alex Fletcher is trying to do, is trying to help Sophie Fisher express herself on paper to write a beautiful delightful song. Furthermore, they realize they are falling For each other with a song yet to be finished.
"Music and Lyrics" finds the usually intolerable Hugh Grant playing a washed up pop singer who meets a young songwriter, played with customary cuteness by actress Drew Barrymore. As per formula, he's cynical about music and the music industry, but her optimism, love and energy rekindles his zest for art and life. They fall in love, break apart, and then get married, the film climaxing with Grant writing a song for Drew and then revealing it to her on stage in front of a crowd of thousands.It's your standard boy meets girl, boy loses girls, boy gets girl back formula. What's different here is that the film has been deliberately reverse engineered, the film-makers starting with a very specific set of problems: how to get a guy and girl romantically writing songs and singing for one another, and how to climax the film with the guy expressing his love to the girl via song in front of a large public audience. As cinema and music, or rather pop-cinema and pop-music, largely define man's understanding of love and romance, the intention here is to tap into a kind of ultra romance, director Marc Lawrence trying to create a more mainstream version of what John Carney did a year earlier with his indie film "Once" (also another Barrymore project, "The Wedding Singer").The film is at its best when its satirising 1980s glamour and pop music. It also pokes fun at the contemporary music scene (many young, oversexed, dumb pop stars gyrating for their rumbustious fans), but such jabs are less funny. As with most of these films, the climax must be a public event, we the audience watching as an audience watches our heroes. This both enfolds us in the drama and taps into a kind of primal need for public validation.Usually with these films the female role is given to a foreigner, someone verbally impaired. It's the male character who masters language and is in a position of linguistic dominance. Here Barrymore is the master of words and Grant's the stammering goof-ball.Note that both actors are all surfaces. They're constantly blasting us with ultra cute, ultra romantic, ultra bashful, ultra suggestive, don't-you-want-to-just-kiss-me-now poses. Every gesture, pose and inflection is relentlessly calculated. Barrymore's an old hand at this now. Grant too. Love is itself a game of broadcasted and exchanged signs.7.9/10 – Romantic comedies, keeping the human species breeding since 1909. Worth one viewing.
