Free Agents starts
where most romantic comedies end — in bed.In the opening moments of the new NBC s...
Free Agents starts
where most romantic comedies end — in bed.
Beginning
where most romantic comedies end, The Five - Year Engagement charts the ups and downs of an engaged couple (Jason Segel & Emily Blunt) who keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.
Beginning
where most romantic comedies usually end, you can't fault «The Five - Year Engagement» for trying to deliver a fresh take on the genre, but although it boasts some really funny moments, like most Judd Apatow productions, the movie doesn't know when enough is enough.
Not exact matches
This can be anything from the beauty parlor (only real men get pedicures), a
romantic comedy at your local movie theater or simply take a yoga class
where the male - to - female ratio will
most likely be in your favor.
Stripping
most of the romance away from the
romantic comedy genre, the film depicts a world
where love hurts, and
where radical shifts in destiny are just a stone's throw away.
It isn't the
most original take on a
romantic comedy, and for a while you might amuse yourself playing «Name the Movie
Where You've Seen That Before,» starting right off the bat with the «woman as cow» metaphor from Someone Like You from the year before.
This is one of the rare
romantic comedies where the sidekicks in the story amuse more than they annoy, and one
where the main players still manage to score the
most laughs and interet.
This is a rare case
where all of the elements work in harmonious fashion to become a work of true craftsmanship of the highest order, from Alfred Hitchcock's perfect pacing, Cary Grant's consummate
romantic comedy leading man persona, Bernard Herrman's (Citizen Kane, Journey to the Center of the Earth) sumptuous scoring, and perhaps
most impressive of all, a stellar script full of quotable lines delivered by Ernest Lehman (The Sound of Music, West Side Story).
Annie Hall has earned practically every honor a film can hope to get in its afterlife, being selected for preservation in the Library of Congress» National Film Registry in 1992, ranking highly on
comedy movie countdowns from Bravo to Zagat, and turning up on every conceivable AFI list («100 Laughs», «100 Quotes», «100 Passions», the overall «100 Films» where dramas outnumber comedies four to one, even «100 Songs» and most recently being designated the # 2 Romantic Comedy behind City Lights in
comedy movie countdowns from Bravo to Zagat, and turning up on every conceivable AFI list («100 Laughs», «100 Quotes», «100 Passions», the overall «100 Films»
where dramas outnumber
comedies four to one, even «100 Songs» and
most recently being designated the # 2
Romantic Comedy behind City Lights in
Comedy behind City Lights in 2008).