Review of Like Crazy (2011) by Enid B — 14 Mar 2012

This Romeo/Juliet-esque film feels like a camera man, freshly out of college, and a indie piano player, with an penchant for loud, out of place musical arraignments, decided to intrude, on a pair of young lovers for their po-mo art project.

With that said, you honestly cannot expect much - it follows suit with all the other romantic dramas that have come before. The adage, "If you have seen the one, you have seen them all" comes to mind.

This again is a case of the inexperienced writers/director coming to the party with something that they feel will blast them into stardom, instead of them working their way up to a heavy drama loaded with subtext and depth. If this then is the case of them trying to break out of the pool of documentaries and shorts, then they should have gone back to the drawing board. This one reads too much like a documentary and not enough like a film. A documentary that tries to fill the shoes of a mainstream, albeit tacky, romantic drama that gets weighed down by excessive streams of nothingness. There was raw potential hidden, as it usually is, underneath all the treacly dialogue and uneventful cliches.

Overall, Ben York Jones and Drake Doremus are a bit green to have taken on this project. They should have rethought things and should have tried to find a different, fresher approach to this awful mess.