Very Cool!!!

So much average

Sadly Over-hyped

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I hadn't seen this for a very long time. I put this on when I needed something light to watch after coming home sick from work. This was so much better than I remember it being and well worth the watch. There is literally no flaw with this movie. Quick, witty, flip, flamboyant, and fierce. The writing is so much better than most of what comes out now. Whoever wrote this did their homework, watching all Rock Hudson and Doris Day, Katherine Hepburn and any of her co-stars. Ewan MacGregpr is "Catcher Block", a "ladies man, man's man, man about town" who tries evading Renee Zellweger who plays Barbara Novack (Novick?) a "spinster from Maine" who wrote a book saying that women can enjoy sex just as much as men without the trappings of love. Hijinks ensue with Barbara Novak's editor, Sarah Paulson, and David Hyde Pierce, Catcher's editor at KNOW magazine, who is trying to get Catcher to write an article about Barbara Novak for his magazine. Airy, breathy, light as a feather, but with excellent performances, including excellent comedic timing and some excellent editing and production design to boot. Having a girls' night? Watch this movie. Or, just watch this movie.

Down With Love is a satire film that good-heartedly pokes fun at those films from the 60s starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson, and it does it in the most convincing and charming way.They way that the movie is filmed is entirely in the same way that movies were filmed just at the end of the Golden Age of Hollywood. The characters are written in that same quirky sex-crazed style and it is such innocently sinful fun. Every joke is sex related, but subtly and sophisticatedly so, so that if a child fourteen or under should watch it they wouldn't understand why the adults laugh. Renee Zellweger fits this style of movie perfectly. She looks beautiful in the wardrobe of her character and she really brings the 60s back to life with her performance. Ewan MeGregor, I felt was a little miscast. I didn't quite believe him as the 'Playboy' but his chemistry with Zellweger brings up his performance and you have a good time watching the silliness of the past unravel before you.I don't understand why this film didn't do well. It's good light-hearted fun, as every romantic-comedy should be, and really takes you back to a time when movies were bright and silly and lovable. I loved it and give it a 6.7/10

Down with Love was a nice idea for a movie. I was expecting something fresh and original from this movie. The performances are consistent, and the fast-paced feel of the movie is nice, but the movie tries too hard. When I say the movie tries too hard, I mean the OTHER twist at the end. When Renee's character, Barbara, turns out to also be someone other than who we think she is. I was fine with Ewan's character using another identity, it made sense, but when Renee's character reveals she's someone else, it just ruined the movie for me.The movie is entertaining, but the twist is just annoying. It was unexpected, I can say that much, but it wasn't needed. The movie could've been much better without that twist.

For me the selling point of this movie was David Hyde Pierce. I got to know him via Frasier, in fact that was all I knew of him so I was pleasantly surprised to see him listed as chief support in what was clearly a comedy. It turned out it was a rip-off of Pillow Talk - the one where super-stud Rock Hudson pretends to be Caspar Milquetoast to get into Doris Day's pants. Tony Randall was usually along for ride back then, more often than not as the millionaire employer of whatever character Hudson was playing and completely in thrall to him. This time Hyde Piece plays the Randall role and the real Randall has a cameo. Tempus fugit. It's a pleasant enough time-waster but that's all.