Down With Love

Another film you can't trust critics on! Oh, wait, that's me. I'm going to go against the grain, though, and not review it in terms of its use of film language or inclusion in the film oeuvre. Bleah. You need to recognize the spirit in which it was made: fun! The director had fun, the costume designer had fun, the score composer had fun, the actors definitely had fun. A tale of a woman who writes a how-to book -- how to not fall in love but still have plenty of sex -- and the one man she can't seem to work her theory on. So, your classic man meets woman, woman loses man, man and woman reconcile type script. Except that this one is a re-make of Pillow Talk (Rock Hudson and Doris Day) and includes Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger. I have to admit up front that his teeth and her chipmunk cheeks never did much for me, but this is okay for this film. They don't have to be classic model types. The film's too much fun for that. So, put a big smile on your face, slip this into the player and enjoy a well-made fluff movie.

year: 2003
length: 101 min.
rating: 3.5
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309530/combined