Down With Love (2003)
Now anyone who truly knows me, knows that I wear my heart on my sleeve when it comes to women. I am a hopeless romantic, mostly due to the nasty problem I have of saying the absolute truth. "Do I look fat in this dress honey?" "Yes dear, go with vertical stripes, not horizontal," & so on. My point is that I am a sucker for rom-coms or "chick flicks."
Now I'm not a huge Renee Zellweger fan by any means. Nor am I a huge proponent of having Ewan MacGregor in a movie (mostly due to his propensity of whipping out his cock). Put them together, & yeah, pretty much box office death 'cause there were no lightsabers. Oh well, hopefully it develops some sort of fanfare on DVD because it really is a fun sex romp, without the sex (in pictures).
Basically a tribute to the .. yeah yeah, if you've heard anything about this movie, you've heard what it's a tribute to. If you're reading this, you're probably somewhat interested in the movie since I did put this behind an LJ-cut. Whatever, David Hyde Pierce is also in it, & he's a pretty funny, neurotic guy.
This has to be one of the most vibrant, colourful movies I think I've ever seen, & not in an epilectic-seizure-inducing fashion. It's quite beautiful & breathtaking how they managed to recreate the new-found plastic look of the early '60s. It looks futuristic by going into the past. Weird eh?
The highlight of the movie, for me anyways, is the juicy dialogue & the excellent deliveries by the actors. In particular, Zellweger has a 3 minute exposition scene with absolutely no cuts whatsoever. Just her, looking off to the side of the camera at MacGregor (probably not actually there at the time because she seemed to make it through the scene).
Totally fun sex romp with an excellent cast, delicious dialogue & beautiful set design. Time flies when you watch this movie, due to the excellent chemistry between the cast & the superfun storyline. If you watch the bloopers on the DVD, you'll see how much fun everyone had working on this movie. I see nothing wrong with this movie at all, other than the gimmick might've been too high-concept for today's popcorn audiences.
Actually, one second. The movie might be a bit too smart for itself. All the characters are way too convinced that they're one-upping the other characters & the very neat wrap-up at the end is just ricockulous. However, isn't that the point of the tribute aspect of the movie? I dunno, we'll go with 4.5 outta 5 though.
Roger Ebert's review of Down With Love (2003)