Down with Love

2003 "The ultimate catch has met his match"
6.3| 1h41m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 08 May 2003 Released
Producted By: Regency Enterprises
Country: United States of America
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In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

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Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Dave This is a romantic comedy set in the early 1960s in New York City. It is done is the style of the romcoms that Doris Day starred in during the 1950s and 1960s. This is a pale imitation of them. Although the stars Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor have acted very well in other films, they're awful in this. Zellweger and McGregor can't decide whether they're paying homage to Doris Day romcoms or making fun of them. I don't know who the intended audience demographic for this film was. The large majority of film fans in the 21st century aren't into this style of comedy; those who are wouldn't enjoy this mediocre copy of them. It's too tame and bland to be a funny parody and too badly made to be a good imitation of them.
vchimpanzee Renee Zellweger is absolutely adorable, too cute to be the feminist pioneer who has changed the world, and yet she has. There's no reason not to like her if you're watching the movie, though male characters in the movie have plenty of reasons not to like her. I've never seen "Mad Men" but I can tell this is a "Mad Men" type of world.David Hyde Pierce overacts nicely and does a great job with an uptight character similar to Dr. Niles Crane. He does seem gay but won't admit it. Since this movie was made, the actor has come out, though that's irrelevant because he can still play a character who claims to be straight.Ewan McGregor does a great job too. He actually has two roles--the confident and conceited playboy reporter Catcher Block and the naive Southerner who became the astronaut Maj. Zip Martin. It's a clever scheme by Block, actually.Tony Randall has a brief but satisfying role. I have many fond memories of him. He shows his age here, but this was surely one of his last roles.Florence Stanley, who seemed to be everywhere years ago, has another brief but memorable role as the wife of a dry cleaner. She's tired of being a second-class citizen, and her husband has trouble standing up to her now.A big part of the comedy is double entendres worthy of "Are You Being Served?" and particularly that show's spin off "Grace and Favour". Dialogue so naughty it should earn the movie an R rating is actually perfectly innocent if you know exactly what the words mean. I'm thinking in particular of one poor secretary.There's not a lot of physical comedy here, but one of the funniest scenes involves Peter's date with Vicky and an accident with a sofa.The music is great. But of course it would be; this is 1962, when music still sounded like music except for that annoying rock and roll that was becoming more and more mainstream at the time (and this movie has some of that, but it's not bad). So many songs sound like they were recorded in the big band era, but that was a great time for music.And the cars! Lots of nice cars from back when cars had personality.Barbara and Vicky both wear such gorgeous outfits. I would even say sexy in a couple of cases.I have one problem: a plot twist that involves an extremely long monologue. It doesn't have a negative effect on the movie, as it turns out, but it was kind of a letdown. Nothing really changes, though, because the movie gets back on track. This is a real winner.
bigeoghanwhelan Ewan McGregor features in yet another unremittingly awful offense to the senses. He really does just dial it in here. In what's supposed to be an homage to/spoof of the early 60s light comedies of Doris Day and, most often, Rock Hudson everyone just totally misses the mark. Whether you liked those movies or not, there was always at least some chemistry between the two leads. Here there's nothing. Where there should be sparky interaction with snappy one-liners being traded there's just two smug individuals trotting out their bland unfunny lines. What is the point of Renee Zellweger's character anyway? Apparently nobody seems to know. Certainly not Miss Zellweger and certainly not the writers.My theory is that some industry types came up with this for a wheeze in the early hours at the end of a major binge and somehow it became a horrendous reality.I feel offended that people got paid to spawn this.
napierslogs Meet Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor) he's a "ladies man, man's man, man about town" type of guy, and Barbara (Renée Zellweger) is more of a man's woman, all decked in pink but independent. She wrote the book on how to live life without a man. Literally."Down with Love" is an ode to the sex films of the 1960s. Down to the fashions, feminism, and sex talk à la "Pillow Talk"(1959). It even stars Tony Randall too. It is a gorgeous film, with a lot of pink, a sexy leading man, and a lot of sexual innuendos. But compared to the Judd Apatow sex comedies of the 2000s, this is tame. Well silly and way over-the-top, but still pretty tame.McGregor is gorgeous as the sexy leading man and Zellweger is pink-ified as the feminist leading woman. They have their fair share of sex jokes, gender stereotypes and ruses, but it's also really funny. "Down with Love" is a fun romp through 2003 disguised as 1962.