Love and Other Drugs
Fine actors can they save a feature film excruciatingly predictable ending by lecturing to anyone who will listen? In an ideal world, yes. But as this is not the case, “Love and Other Drugs” failed in its task of combining comedy, romance and sentimental drama.
He (Jake Gyllenhaal) is charming and available. She (Anne Hathaway) has a gorgeous body and will not commit. Together, they are parts of legs in the air in any complicity. But why are the arrows of Cupid do they feel, risking every time to sow discord? And why fate has he made sure that Madame is suffering from Parkinson’s disease?
The viewer has no difficulty understanding the marketing campaign behind “Love and Other Drugs”. Jake Gyllenhaal knows how to play and he has a pretty face, while Anne Hathaway is about to become the Julia Roberts of 21e century, having to her resume a few roles more difficult (in the very good “Rachel Getting Maried” for example).
Especially since the old cronies of “Brokeback Mountain” have a chemistry very attractive, and that the premise asked several scenes of nudity. On this side, people who want to rinse the eye will be met (while remaining within the limits of film-based public).
Yet it would be to forget the essential: the arch-worn script does is simply not. The book is divided into three stages surprises ever. Worse, it sinks slowly but surely in the tacky melodrama, showing a selfish when it is becoming more human love. With beautiful speech outweighs the need to love each other when the disease appears to turn. Of nice lessons that are supported, eventually rising in the heart of the final narrative.
Before arriving there appears a pretty but uneven comedy that manages to just barely squeeze in a few smiles. This is particularly true in situations with a little big on competition that may exist between drug companies, which allows too rare Oliver Platt to shine with his humor so special. It’s more that these sub-plots on the family of artificial male character, who is styling a brother who finally brings nothing to the story.
Romance falls a bit into the water by his subject matter with too much sugar and a new realization completely anonymous Edward Zwick (“Legends of the Fall”), “Love and Other Drugs” let himself look only for the charm that ‘brings Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. It would have been preferable to see a project worthy of the name in any way exploit their talent.
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