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DVD Down with Love (Widescreen Edition)
The bright, glossy world of Doris Day and Rock Hudson sex comedies gets a self-aware brush-up in Down with Love. Pillow-lipped Renée Zellweger (Chicago) plays Barbara Novak, the author of a bestselling book called Down with Love that advises women to focus on their careers and have sex à la carte--just like a man would. Determined to prove that Novak is just as vulnerable to love as any woman, dashingly chauvinist magazine writer Catcher Block (ever-charming Ewan McGregor, Moulin Rouge) pretends to be a courtly astronaut who wouldn't dream of putting his hand on a woman's knee. This piffle of a story seems like nothing more than an excuse for ironic double-entendres and dazzling production design, until a sneaky plot twist suddenly raises the stakes for the movie's end. As he always does, the brilliant David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) scores the most comic points as Block's fussy editor. --Bret Fetzer
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Awesomely cheeky movie
This film kept me in stiches from beginning to end. Ewan McGregor is awesome as the leading man, but David Hyde Pierce as his nuerotic sidekick steals the show. The women were wonderful as well but the men made the movie for me.
This is a film that any fan of romantic comedies/Ewan McGregor/the 60s should own!
Pure Fun, Over and Over Again!
Set in an amazingly recreated 1960's New York City and designed in intricate detail to resemble one of those old Rock Hudson/Doris Day classics, "Down With Love" is a wholesome LOOKING sex comedy with all the obscene humor found in today's modesty-free version of the genre. The key is, like those edgy cinematic trists from the groovy 60's, in "Down With Love" nearly everything is a double-entendre. Rather than hammering us with vulgar nudity and language, "Down With Love" steals the innuendo crown off Three's Company's head, and leaves (almost) all the nastiness up to our dirty little imaginations. It's a much classier way of dealing with the ever lowering-brow of modern social humor, and much appreciated!
The romance-comedy plot centers on two main characters (naturally), Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger) and Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor). Barbara is a new-on-the-scene author who's written a controversial first book entitled "Down With Love." It's basically a manual for the modern woman preaching Barbara's new philosophy of getting equality in the workplace, home, and world by facing love like a man. Barbara believes the key to success is not falling in love, but having "sex à la carte," the way men do, and having chocolate instead of sex when the risk of falling in love is too great. In other words, "down with love, and up with chocolate." After a meeting with the head-men of the publishing house that has picked up her book, Barbara comes to realize that the company has very little interest in promoting her masterpiece; that is, all except for the sole female editor, Vikki Hiller. The two become fast friends, and work together on an undercover campaign to get the word out about "Down With Love." Vikki's first attempt involves an interview with Catcher Block, famous writer for "Know Magazine: the Magazine For Men in the Know." Unfortunately, Catcher Block (ladies' man, man's man, man about town) is repeatedly too busy with his sexual escapades to make it to an actual meeting. This steams Barbara, who finally tells him off over the phone before ever actually meeting him. But not to worry, she and Vikki quickly cook up another scheme to get some media coverage for their book. Pulling some strings, Vikki manages to arrange for none other than Judy Garland to sing the song of the same name, "Down With Love," on the Ed Sullivan show, working in a plug for the book. Before they know it, the word is out, and it spreads like wildfire. Women over the world are getting their hands on the amazing new book and completely redefining their roles in society. They're all much happier; all but Barbara, who can't get a date to save her life. However, after the now famous author publicly chastises Catcher Block during a TV game-show, the charmingly chauvinistic magazine writer decides that he will be her next conquest. With the help of Peter Mac Mannus, his lonely and admiring editor/best friend, Catch masquerades as Zip Martin, a southern-fried astronaut who is high on morals and clueless to the "Down With Love" revolution. As his new alter-ego, Catch puts a plan into action to get Barbara to fall in love with him and admit on tape that she, herself, is vulnerable to falling in love.
"Down With Love" is a pure delight from beginning to end. No matter how many times I watch this movie, I can't seem to get enough! As others have said, the film is major eye-candy. The retro sets, clothes, and personalities are amazing! Everything is tied together by fabulous writing and an outstanding cast, particularly Zellweger, McGregor, and David Hyde Pierce and Sarah Paulson who play Peter and Vicki. Some have said that David Hyde Pierce steals all the comedy the same way he did on TV's "Frasier." While I loved Pierce on "Frasier" AND in this, I'd have to say that the comedy is pretty evenly distributed. McGregor and Zellweger are hilarious together, and everyone seems to be having a genuinely fun time. Including Tony Randall was also a stroke of genius. He's always great and will always be greatly missed. The DVD has some wonderful extras too, particularly the music video featuring Zellweger and McGregor performing (excellently!) a hilarious song and dance number called "Here's To Love!" The outtakes reel, deleted scenes, and even the wardrobe tests are great fun to watch! And don't you dare write this off as a "chick flick!" I'm a straight male in my late 20s, and this movie still has me laughing out loud! So glad I finally got my own DVD and won't have to keep watching my little sister's! Incidentally, this reviewer in no way supports the "sex à la carte" lifestyle, for males or females, even if it seems to be insanely popular with most folks nowadays.
It could have been better
I loved almost everything about this movie. I loved the look of the movie, the actors, the acting, the music and even the plot. But I think it was too long and the script wasn't funny enough. I was kinda bored by the end.
After a string of mediocre movies, director Tim Burton regains his footing as he shifts from macabre fairy tales to Southern tall tales. Big Fish twines in and out of the oversized stories of Edward Bloom, played as a young man by Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Down with Love) and as a dying father by Albert Finney (Tom Jones). Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup, Almost Famous) sits by his father's bedside but has little patience with the old man's fables, because he feels these stories have kept him from knowing who his father really is. Burton dives into Bloom's imagination with zest, sending the determined young man into haunted woods, an idealized Southern town, a traveling circus, and much more. The result is sweet but--thanks to the director's dark... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tim Burton DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A dazzling and yet frequently maddening bid to bring the movie musical kicking and screaming into the 21st century, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge bears no relation to the many previous films set in the famous Parisian nightclub. This may appear to be Paris in the 1890s, with can-can dancers, bohemian denizens like Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo), and ribaldry at every turn, but it's really Luhrmann's pop-cultural wonderland. Everyone and everything is encouraged to shatter boundaries of time and texture, colliding and careening in a fast-cutting frenzy that thinks nothing of casting Elton John's "Your Song" 80 years before its time. Nothing is original in this kaleidoscopic, absinthe-inspired love tragedy--the words, the music, it's all been heard before. But when filtered... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Baz Luhrmann DVD Release Date: Released the 14 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A Life Less Ordinary is a surprising disappointment, considering it is the third film from director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, and actor Ewan McGregor. This disjointed and strained romantic comedy is not even near the same league as Trainspotting and Shallow Grave. Cameron Diaz is a spoiled heiress and McGregor an aimless janitor brought together by two angels (Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo) hoping to hang onto their wings. McGregor kidnaps Diaz, the boss's daughter, after being fired from his crummy job. She is not all that averse to being snatched. Most of the laughs are lost to a scattershot story that feels preposterous instead of magical. --Rochelle O'GormanMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ewan McGregor - Cameron Diaz - Holly Hunter - Delroy Lindo Director(s): Danny Boyle DVD Release Date: Released the 20 March 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the Boston Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: He just wants to be loved, and he'll go to absurdly appealing lengths to win our affection. With Love Actually, Curtis orchestrates a minor miracle of romantic choreography, guiding a brilliant cast of stars and newcomers as they careen toward love and holiday cheer in London, among them the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who's smitten with his caterer; a widower (Liam Neeson) whose young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Hugh Grant - Liam Neeson DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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