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Googoo Revoos: Music and Lyrics
By BUPPY-SUGAR BABY
01 March 2007
Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore combine their clumsy charm for the first time in Marc Lawrence's “lets take the piss out of everything” comedy about an 80’s pop has been who has the chance to reclaim fame and glory.
My first thought was upon seeing the trailer to music and lyrics was :1) Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore are to similar and will just end up getting under each others feet in a comedy (don’t get me wrong I think they’re both great despite Hugh being synonymous with chick flicks) ; 2) Shit another chick flick I’ll be forced to watch. Well the first statement was definitely wrong. I still believe Grant and Barrymore have very similar styles when it comes to comedy acting, but they complemented each other tremendously. The second was kind of true, I was forced to watch it, but I wasn’t thinking “shit” afterwards. (I’d like to add at this point I’m all man!!)
The film as already explained, focus’s on Alex Fletcher (Grant), an ex-singer from a stereo-typical one time famous 80’s pop group “pop”. Thus far to date he is still able to lead a somewhat comfortable life doing gigs at parties for middle aged ladies and fun-fairs. However all is not good for him as his manager tells him work is drying up. There is light at the end of this dark tunnel though because the latest pop diva Cora (Garrett), (who is a mixture of Britney spears, Gwen stefani and Christina Aguilera ,She also pokes fun at all three of them, high lighting how ridiculous they are!!) needs help writing a new song. Enter Alex Fletcher who she considers to be something of a legend. He is given until next Friday to help, or she will go somewhere else, and So the adventure begins.
Obviously the task of writing lyrics for someone so famous is quite daunting and when Sophie the plant girl (Barrymore) unwittingly shows that she ooze’s talent for writing song lyrics, Fletcher wastes no time in enlisting her help. This leads to loads of romantic mishaps and witty comedy moments which you would expect from a film starring Hugh Grant. The film is somewhat typical of the “rom com” genre, but then there’s no such thing as an original romantic comedy. The other thing is you can’t expect too much in terms of originality from a film that stereotypes absolutely everything “show-biz”.
Music and Lyrics is silly and enjoyable, but superficial and formulaic: this could describe virtually every rom-com made in Hollywood over the past decade. Fortunately, this one has a superbly engaging cast.
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