Synopsis
Ray Winkler (Woody Allen) gathers a team of small-time crooks — including his wife Frenchy (Tracey Ullman) — to tunnel beneath a bank using a cookie store as a front. Complicating matters: everyone involved is a complete moron.
I sometimes feel that romantic comedies are a mix-and-match affair, meaning, choose from the following women who can cry on-screen (Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston) and pair with a sensitive-man (Mark Ruffalo, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Tom Hanks, Zach Braff, Keanu Reeves). Then follow the list of romantic movie cliches, and profit!
So Music And Lyrics is the partnering of Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant, both romantic comedy regulars (The Wedding Singer and Notting Hill). Of course, know what you’re getting into. This is not a cerebral exercise into the future of mankind or drug-trafficking in Afghanistan. That said, for what it is, Music And Lyrics delivers. What’s interesting is how the blossoming romance ends up playing second fiddle to a lot of funnier stuff.