Crazy Stupid Love review
Oct. 4th, 2011 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearMy last afternoon of freedom before having to rejoin the real world again was stretching before me, filled with nothing but building apprehension.
So, I took a risk, based on a positive Empire review, and went to the cinema to see Crazy Stupid Love.
On paper, it looked like a bad idea - rom-com in which Steve Carell plays a middle-aged father whose wife asks for a divorce out of the blue. He meets a young womaniser (Ryan Gosling - very good) in a bar, who mentors him in ways to pick up women. Cue offensive humour, annoying characters, and a plot completely devoid of depth - or so I thought.
However, sometimes, risks pay off - I haven't laughed so much at the cinema in a very, very long time. Plus, in between the hilarious bits, it was sweet and well written, with good performances all round (except perhaps Marisa Tomei, who was slightly over the top, but not so much as to ruin anything).
I utterly did not expect various things that happened in the second half - though, in hindsight, they probably should have been obvious.
Perhaps enthusing about the film so much is a bad idea, since it might not live up to the hype if you go in expecting it to be awesome - but it served its purpose of distracting me brilliantly, and I'm very glad I went.
So, I took a risk, based on a positive Empire review, and went to the cinema to see Crazy Stupid Love.
On paper, it looked like a bad idea - rom-com in which Steve Carell plays a middle-aged father whose wife asks for a divorce out of the blue. He meets a young womaniser (Ryan Gosling - very good) in a bar, who mentors him in ways to pick up women. Cue offensive humour, annoying characters, and a plot completely devoid of depth - or so I thought.
However, sometimes, risks pay off - I haven't laughed so much at the cinema in a very, very long time. Plus, in between the hilarious bits, it was sweet and well written, with good performances all round (except perhaps Marisa Tomei, who was slightly over the top, but not so much as to ruin anything).
I utterly did not expect various things that happened in the second half - though, in hindsight, they probably should have been obvious.
Perhaps enthusing about the film so much is a bad idea, since it might not live up to the hype if you go in expecting it to be awesome - but it served its purpose of distracting me brilliantly, and I'm very glad I went.
