A constantly bickering couple frustrated with their menial jobs form a band with their weird neighbor when they decide to use music as a creative outlet. The content of their fights is turned into vacuous lyrics and set to mediocre music, but we'll eventually learn that this is just their way of avoiding discussion of the real conflicts tearing their marriage apart. In order to enrich the viewing experience, the movie also provides an educational lecture to inform us that woman tend to be more open then men in expressing their emotions.
You know those commercials where chatty young urbanites engage in fluid conversation while a shaky camera quickly cuts from one intimate angle to another? Insipid music plays in the background to emphasize the drama and in the end it turns out to be a sales pitch for something completely unrelated, like shampoo or an on-line brokerage. Now imagine that the commercial lasts for 90 minutes. The movie does have some very good funny moments when it isn't trying to be serious and it even has a few good serious moments when it isn't trying to be funny, but together it just doesn't add up. I suppose there must be people to whom this style of film appeals, but I'm obviously not one of them
You know those commercials where chatty young urbanites engage in fluid conversation while a shaky camera quickly cuts from one intimate angle to another? Insipid music plays in the background to emphasize the drama and in the end it turns out to be a sales pitch for something completely unrelated, like shampoo or an on-line brokerage. Now imagine that the commercial lasts for 90 minutes. The movie does have some very good funny moments when it isn't trying to be serious and it even has a few good serious moments when it isn't trying to be funny, but together it just doesn't add up. I suppose there must be people to whom this style of film appeals, but I'm obviously not one of them