Paragraph Reviews 12/10/10
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Love and Other Drugs
Watch the two-minute green band trailer and you know exactly how this movie goes, more or less. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway fall in love, separate, and get back together again. Welcome to the standard rom-com formula, unchanged since the beginning of time. That’s not to say the movie isn’t enjoyable (up until the trite ending, which everyone sees a mile away); there is great chemistry between Gyllenhaal’s take on a career-minded, smart-ass, sweet-talking med salesman and Hathaway’s sarcastic, quasi-misanthropic, surprisingly charming twenty-something with Parkinson’s. Add a dash of breasts, a ton of male ass, and many many boner jokes (the character is selling Viagra, after all), and you’ve got a decent date movie, even if the first third (which is mainly focused on career moves and less on romance) is more interesting than the eye-roll-worthy rest.
Rating: 6
