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Summary: Cheery Alex Fletcher lives comfortably in Manhattan off the residuals from his 80's pop success and reprising his hits at school reunions, theme parks, and state fairs. But those gigs are declining, so he jumps at the chance to write a song and record it with reigning teen idol Cora Corman. Trouble is, he's good at melodies but needs a lyricist and has less than a week to finish. Enter Sophie Fisher, subbing for a friend who waters Alex's plants... (imdb)
The first hour flows nicely through a tale of two new friends writing a song together, and is genuinely fun to watch. The characters are likeable, the score overly cheesy but in a good way, and the comedy amusing. When their song writing is done, the film also seems ready to finish. Sadly, it does not. What follows is roughly an hour of typical romcom affairs which left me maddeningly disappointed. This could have been a triumph for the genre. Such a shame.
Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore are a good team (they would've been in the 30s Hollywood, too), and the 80 music video parody is spot on. They even bother to make the contemporary songs sound right. I just didn't give a crap about the tired story of two people who have to move on from their past to engage the present. Not only was it unoriginal, but it was cloyingly tied to the songwriting in a gag-inducing finale.
Bad. An ex-pop star tries to revive his career by enlisting the help of a hot, female lyricist. Only watch if you have a poster of Hugh Grant hanging over your bed. Otherwise, just pretend it never got made.