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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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An enjoyable likeable romantic comedy that I find a nice refresher after blockbusters, horror and Asian films. Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling are brilliant, the bar scenes are great, and the interesting twists and tricks are a delight. The highlight is the hilarious scene at the garden reunion, it will make your sides hurt. 80%.
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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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There's loads of these brisk, funny, situationally attuned, brilliantly shot comedies with polished casts in precisely fitting jackets, and no less precisely fitting roles. And if there is also an interesting dramatic subtext and some wisdom from life, much better. It should be noted, however, that Crazy Stupid Love entertains just a little bit more than its contemporaries. It's hard to say what it is, maybe the directorial dynamics, maybe the immediacy of the main characters, in any case, it’s great.
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I wonder why Steve Carell took on another almost identical role after the great Dan in Real Life? Why didn't the film end with a great confrontation in the garden and have to have that awful ending? Why did Ryan Gosling get on my nerves so much? Okay, I'll answer the last question myself right now, since I'm heterosexual, but the first two remain a mystery. Still, Crazy, Stupid, Love isn't a bad spectacle. It's just worse than the aforementioned film four years before.
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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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