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- Susan Rogers, Art Director The sets of Down with Love (2003) are so hip they hurt: Ewan McGregor's bachelor pad features motorized furniture that changes from one thing to another at the flick of a button, and Renée Zellweger's chic apartment beautifully sets off her wardrobe!

After a sadly failed early marriage, I suppose I needed to say «down with love», and «friendship is good».

The replacement director is Peyton Reed, who normally makes comedies, including the brightly - colored Doris Day tribute, Down with Love.

The script bears all the earmarks of last - minute tinkering by multiple hands, and the emergency director, Reed — who began his career promisingly with Bring It On and the underrated war - of - the - sexes confection Down with Love before backsliding into such lazy fare as The Break - Up and Yes Man — is not up to the task of tying it all together into a satisfying whole.

Our gallery was updated with screencaptures of Ewan McGregor as Catcher Block on Down With Love.

A Life Less Ordinary marks the third straight collaboration between director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, The Beach), screenwriter John Hodge (The Final Curtain), and budding superstar Ewan McGregor (Down with Love, Big Fish), following on the heels of their critically acclaimed offbeat films, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

Peyton Reed (The Break - Up, Down with Love) continues his visually appealing flair for light comedies, particularly in the quirky romance department, and when the film works its best is in the more quaintly geeky moments involving Carl's love interest, Allison (Deschanel, The Happening), in her artsy new wave band and Carl's boss, Norman, and his exuberance for offbeat things, including a Harry Potter themed party.

Although it all looks and sounds so good from an aesthetic standpoint, it isn't until Renee Zellweger (Down with Love, Chicago) makes her appearance as Ruby that Cold Mountain really starts to take hold.

Ostensibly a parody of quirky sex - romp comedies from the 1960s, over-stylized production design and costuming, innuendo - filled dialogue, and a taste of modern politics make Down With Love a movie that could only be made in the present.

While many tears were shed when Edgar Wright left the project in the development stage, director Peyton Reed (Down With Love) gives the origin story surrounding Rudd's performance as Scott Lang a bouncy rhythm and mischievous sense of humor.

Down With Love — which has already closed in Chicago — is entertaining thanks to Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake's clever script, Peyton Reed's mainly assured direction, inventive production and costume design, a musical number behind the final credits I'd happily swap all of Chicago for, and even a miscast Renee Zellweger pulling off a difficult climactic monologue.

Director Peyton Reed keeps the movie handsome, but there's little of the style he brought to the overlooked Down With Love or even the dire - but - distinctive The Break - Up.

Before getting into the Marvel Universe, Peyton Reed was making mostly comedies including Bring It On, Down with Love, The Break - Up and Yes Man with Jim Carrey.

If a more interesting and entertaining Hollywood movie than Down With Love has come along this year, I've missed it.

Reed's previous films (Down With Love and Bring It On) show a similar willingness to explore and twist genre conventions, whether sports movie or musical and romantic comedy.

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So why did I enjoy Down with Love, a 2003 parody of these flicks, so much?

The voice acting is also quite good, with plenty of stars like Angelina Jolie (Taking Lives) and Renee Zellwegger (Down with Love) to round up the supporting cast.

It's no surprise that director Peyton Reed's (Down with Love, The Break - Up) previous work just so happens to be in made for TV movies, which might also explain the derivative nature and poor handling of scenes that make little sense in the film.

Ant - Man is out now, with Peyton Reed (Down with Love) directing a cast that includes Paul Rudd (I Love You, Man) as Scott Lang, Michael Douglas (Behind The Candelabra) as Dr. Hank Pym, Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) as Hope Van Dyne, Corey Stoll (House of Cards) as Darren Cross / Yellowjacket, John Slattery (Iron Man 2) as Howard Stark, Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger) as Peggy Carter, Anthony Mackie (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) as Sam Wilson / Falcon, Judy Greer (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as Maggie, Bobby Cannavale (The Long Play) as Paxton, Michael Peña (American Hustle) as Luis, Abby Ryder Fortson (Togetherness) as Cassie Lang, David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight) as Kurt, Wood Harris (The Wire) as Gale, T.I. (American Gangster) as Dave and Martin Donovan (Inherent Vice) as Mitchell Carson.

The first clue that this is going to be a different sort of Marvel movie is that it's directed by Peyton Reed, whose stock in trade is comedy and whose 2003 movie, «Down With Love,» was one of the shrewdest satires of the previous decade.

Reed previously directed films including «Bring It On,» «Yes Man,» «The Breakup,» and «Down With Love.»

Making the case that modern romance is just as confounding in the 21st century as it was in the»60s, Down With Love deserves another look.

The Vanishing (George Sluizer)-- 33, 1988 A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon — 7, 1989 King of Comedy (Stephen Chow & Lee Lik - chi)-- 9, 1999 Toutes les nuits (Eugène Green)-- 24, 2001 Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)-- 7, 2002 Down with Love (Peyton Reed)-- 10, 2003

Reed's past films Bring It On and Down with Love have effervescent storytelling, but everything in Ant - Man feels perfunctory.

MacManus has a huge crush on Vikki, who is trying to be a Down with Love type woman, so she is spurning him.

The movie, directed by Peyton Reed («Down With Love,» «Bring It On») and starring Paul Rudd, isn't exactly or entirely fluffy, but it's pretty damn agile, and as a result provides the most pure, uncomplicated fun, and even joy, of any Marvel picture I've seen.

Novak wrote a book called Down with Love that extolled the then unheard of ideas of female workplace equality.

In Down with Love, one character states that the war of the sexes could be resolved if only the two leads find a way into each other's arms, and that's just the kind of jab to the ribs the genre's been needing for a while now.

Unfortunately, Down with Love also re-creates most of the stale fluff from those films that does not work.

Down With Love — Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor star in this homage to / parody of the Doris Day sex comedies of the early 60s.

Down with Love pays tribute to the movies of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, while Far From Heaven pays its tribute to the films of Douglas Sirk.

The one redeeming moment of Down with Love is a monologue by Zellweger near the end of the film where everything comes out into the open.

Like the recent Far From Heaven, Down with Love is an homage to movies from yesteryear.

Salvation comes in the form of Ruby (Renee Zellweger, Down With Love, Chicago), a headstrong woman who is Ada's opposite in nearly every way.

Barbara is a small - town Maine girl who has written a book called Down with Love that tells females how they can have casual flings with men.

Director: Peyton Reed (Bring it On, The Break - Up, Down with Love, Yes Man) Writers: Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay, Paul Rudd Producers: Kevin Feige Starring: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, Michael Peña MPAA Rating: PG - 13 Running time: 117 min.

Films from Velvet Goldmine to Moulin Rouge to Down With Love have proven that few actors possess McGregor's dynamism, but in this adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's Beat - era novel, he plays to the other end of his range.

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There was huge amount of press for Down With Love, all about the clothes.

Down With Love proves that's true in Hollywood, too.

Movie mavens will quickly detect his limited conversance with the romantic - comedy genre of yesteryear, as Reed states his desire to bring Saul Bass to mind with the opening credits: Bass designed the main titles for Anatomy of a Murder, Seconds, and the remake of Cape Fear, among others — not exactly the first guy you'd think of for Pillow Talk 2, in other words, and just the earliest of Down with Love's disingenuous lapses.

The set design and costumes the only reason to see it, Down with Love is post-modernism that predictably has nowhere to go and, sadly, is an orphan of both the mod and post-mod with nothing at all to say for itself.

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Down with Love arrives on DVD in a fuchsia keepcase.

Where Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven mined the subtext of Douglas Sirk's films, locating modern cinema's obsession as the uneasy illusion — the hypocrisy — of the traditional family, Down with Love is just an obnoxious magnification handcuffed, ironically, by its adherence to the dissolved Code and the new trend of political correctness.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers No sarcasm intended, I noticed something about Down with Love as I watched it with the DVD's director commentary activated, which is that it plays closer to intent without the original audio.

informs that the film's background plates during the driving sequences are vintage dailies copped from My Man Godfrey and That Touch of Mink; «Creating the World of Down with Love» (3 mins.)

and the jokes don't get any funnier than that; Down with Love makes so many miscalculations about its cast and premise that its theatrical release concurrent with The Matrix Reloaded doesn't seem so much «counter-programming» as «hide the evidence.»

spells out the significance of Tony Randall's casting for the untutored viewer; and «Down with Love: Split Decisions» (3 mins.)