The film contains fleeting profanity and frequent rough and crude language. But, aside from the appealing music, this rendition of the recipe is fairly stale. It’s a stout formula with attractive lead actors. Mismatched people can still find romance.
Without money and a recording studio at his disposal, Dan strikes on the idea of cobbling together Gretta’s demo album using moxie, drive and whatever “free” musicians he can corral.Īll you need is love. Yet Gretta is still intrigued enough to drop her plan to return to Britain and enroll in college.
He’s an unpleasant drunken slob at this point with a habit of running out on his bar tabs. All it takes is a single hearing of her breathy singing voice in a basement dive, and Dan is inspired. Gretta and Dan both end up in reduced circumstances in Greenwich Village. But she’s astute enough to realize from a single demo recording for his latest album that Dave’s no longer singing for her, but in celebration of a new romance. Gretta’s talent for lyric writing landed Dave a major label contract and all the wealth that went with it. Dan, once a genius at discovering new talent, is now a bitter boozer and estranged from wife and daughter, while Gretta used to be the girlfriend and muse for recording star Dave (Adam Levine). “I think that music is about ears, not about eyes,” says Gretta (Keira Knightley) to Dan (Mark Ruffalo), the A&R (artists and repertoire) executive just fired from the label he’d help found. And despite the time writer-director John Carney’s script spends railing against cliches and stereotypes in the recording industry, the formulaic dialogue in this redemption story of a plucky singer and an alcoholic record executive sounds left over from an inspirational lecture. The latest crop of new films includes an exemplary sequel, a predictable romantic comedy and an interesting (if bloody) exercise in exorcism that - wonder of wonders - treats faith seriously.Ĭompetent pop tunes are strung together by a hackneyed plot line in this romantic comedy.
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