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Dan FogelmanCinematography:
Andrew DunnCast:
Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Lio Tipton, Jonah Bobo, Joey King, Marisa Tomei, Beth Littleford, John Carroll Lynch, Kevin Bacon (more)VOD (5)
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Comedy drama starring Steve Carell as Cal, a divorcee who is struggling to find success in the dating world. Until recently Cal was happily married - or so he thought. When his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), files for a divorce, he is thrown into the unfamiliar territory of single life. Drowning his sorrows at a local pub, Cal meets a 30-something bachelor, Jacob (Ryan Gosling), who gives him advice and helps him work on his appearance. While women start to get interested in Cal, his son, Robbie (Jonah Bobo), falls for his babysitter (Analeigh Tipton), and Jacob meets a girl (Emma Stone) who isn't fooled by his charms. Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon also star. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
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Here, the entire plot of Hitch is just a prelude to a multilayered relationship collage combining romantic, comedic and dramatic elements. Though it follows a Hollywood template, it works skillfully with several characters whose love troubles are not completely clichéd and predictable. Thanks to this, and thanks to the casting of Ryan Gosling and Julianne Moore in the roles where you’d expect Adam Sandler and Salma Hayek, the film is not just another bland pot of mush.
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A romantic comedy that is incredibly enjoyable, well acted, and not based on a script that is completely stupid, soulless, or tasteless. The joys and sorrows of love are a rewarding and inexhaustible subject that translates well to the screen. Moreover, Crazy, Stupid Love manages not to get bogged down in clichés and awkwardness, as is often the case with films of this genre. In addition, a film starring Julianne Moore and Emma Stone together would be worth watching just for their presence alone. In short, a nice and sweet film that makes you laugh and moves you, in both cases pretty honestly from the heart.
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For three quarters of its run I was really thrilled with Crazy, Stupid, Love, but that clichéd happy ending made me lose that feeling very quickly. Carell, Gosling, Moore, et al. are fantastic, I had no problem liking everyone. It’s certainly a very nice film, but if you want to see a truly great one, turn it off after the “meeting in the garden” scene.
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Love is a struggle. Even in a film essentially devoid of conflict. Romantic comedies about people losing and regaining certainties in life will always have a place in any era. We will always want to run away and naïvely believe. The second film by the directors of the imaginative I Love You Phillip Morris neither advances nor enriches the genre, but it does exactly what it outwardly promises to do – it delights the viewer. It is more delightful than other films in the same category. Thanks to the well-coordinated, likable actors, smooth transitions between farce and tragedy, ironic references to genre clichés (rain, the Dirty Dancing reference) and the unexpected revelation that retroactively justifies the seemingly weak connection between the various story lines (and doesn’t seem contrived, because it consists in cleverly working with, or rather concealing, information). Due to the interconnectedness of the individual motifs, the comedy isn’t tasteless (shameless photos elegantly resolve one of the storylines), nor is it silly in its utterly unrealistic ending. Crazy, Stupid, Love is simply proof that a fresh approach can be taken to a seemingly played-out genre without the necessity of going to extremes. 75%
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Such a stellar constellation, and such a shallow result. What does it matter that actors like Carell, Moore, Emma Stone or the new hearthrob Ryan Gosling shine in front of the camera, when they are part of a script so naive and shallow that it was impossible to ignore. The three romantic storylines fit together beautifully and the first face-to-face meeting of all the characters raises the film to a slightly higher level, but with the exception of Gosling's affair, the stories are not very interesting, in some respects they’re downright far-fetched (I would have shot that little boy), and also blindly predictable until the final reconciliatory happy ending. I don't want to criticize too much, because this comedy certainly doesn't deserve it, but as much as I was looking forward to and expecting an American version of Love Actually, in the end I had to put up with just another routine movie that was neither very funny nor original. 70%
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