Review of Love & Other Drugs (2010) by Ian H — 01 Sep 2011

We're still watching this. It's like 8 hours long, but you know, gotta tough it out. Surprisingly, myriad boobs don't compensate for a script that appears to have been written using the method of "If you put 1000 romantic comedy writers in a room, eventually they'll write Annie Hall.

" Not true. Instead you get a clusterfuck of a script directed as a sort of reference guide to romantic comedy tropes. If they don't end up getting back together at the end, add one half star.

If they do subtract one half star. UPDATE: Finished the movie. Subtracting whole star due to the fact that there was so much potential to skewer the pharmaceutical industry and chose to tell a fucking cliched love story in some sort of effort to be crowd pleasing.

This is the sort of movies you need film critics for. The one where they will say "Yes, this might have had some potential if they hadn't ruined all the nutritional value by pouring HFCF heavy maple syrup all over it, covering that in hydrogenated oil filled whipped cream and putting an artificially manufactured cherry right on the goddamn top.