Silly. Lighthearted. Cute. "Cheesy and proud of it"A washed up singer (Grant) is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written lyrics in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman (Barrymore) with a flair for words.
The main gag of the movie is that Grant's band, Pop!, is basically a bad (and I guess straight) Wham! and it's pretty amusing to anyone who remembers Wham! (me) and even to those young enough not to (my 15 year old daughter).
Grant's character is shades of George Wade in Two Weeks Notice while Barrymore's reminded me of Lucy Whitmore in Fifty First Dates.
If you like Grant and Barrymore playing to type, this movie's for you.
It has a sweet, slightly unexpected climax and the denouement with its VH1 pop-up bubbles is quite entertaining.
The soundtrack is incredibly bad 80s pop music so, of course, immediately after we saw the movie, Rachel bought it from iTunes and has been looping it endlessly ever since. They're the type of songs which are almost impossible to get out of your head. Ugh.
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