Check This One Out! - Crazy, Stupid, Love

Check This One Out! - Crazy, Stupid, Love

Hannah: "Will you take off your shirt?...F**k! Seriously? It's like you're Photoshopped!"

    Crazy, Stupid, Love is directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You Phillip Morris, Focus, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot) and stars Steve Carell as Cal, Ryan Gosling as Jacob, Julianne Moore as Emily, Emma Stone as Hannah, Kevin Bacon as David Lindhagen, Marisa Tomei as Kate, Jonah Bobo as Robbie, Analeigh Tipton as Jessica, and Joey King as Molly.

I'm assuming Gosling is trying to keep Carell form getting too excited about the cast. Although, it would be cool to have a Brick Tamland interact with the other people.

    After his messy ask of a divorce from his wife, Cal is now single, but really clueless when it comes to picking up women. This is where Jacob, a young and hunky player, takes Cal under his wing to learn how to woo beautiful females at a bar. Things turn south, though, when Jacob falls in love with someone close to Cal, causing animosity among the family members of Cal's family. This story about losing love, finding love, and returning to love is hilarious and charming. It hits you in all the right places (especially Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Damn, they're beautiful together).

Oh damn, something went wrong. You can tell if the men are sitting like this, the women are piiiiiiised off at them.

    I know there are many romantic comedies out there and I know Crazy, Stupid, Love probably wouldn't be on peoples' top five romantic comedies (maybe, maybe not), but I'm head over heels with this modern love story. Nowadays, it's hard to make a good romantic film, let alone a romantic comedy. Sometimes the main actors don't have the chemistry that their characters need or sometimes the script is just clichéd and awful. Luckily, Crazy, Stupid, Love has nothing of that nature. This film warms my heart when I see that I can truly believe the multiple romances going on. The couple that I find the most likable in this film is...take a guess. Take a wild guess. Yeah, of course it's Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. I'm not sure what it is about them, but I can watch them in whatever project they do together. They're young, silly, and real. That's actually why I can't wait for La La Land coming in December. Honestly, I'm super f***ing excited! Sorry. I've got to calm down. Anyways, it isn't just those two lovebirds that made me smile throughout the movie, it was also the chemistry between Robbie, a young middle-schooler, and Jessica, the 17-year-old babysitter. Although, it's just a one sided relationship (obviously Robbie loves Jessica), Robbie's determination to win her heart is incredibly funny. I know everyone reading this, at some point in their childhood, had a crush on someone much older than themselves. Crazy, Stupid, Love actually has two of those relationships, and they all intertwine, which is the crazy thing. That's primarily what charmed me the most: the script is beautiful and connects all the characters, as distant as they sort of seem, together. Even though this film focuses on one family in particular, they all have their separate love storylines. And when they do sync up in the end, it's in such a way that almost destroys the family, but eventually mends it.

Oh, how we all would like to have Ryan Gosling sweep us off our feet.

    If you're tired of unbearable characters and actors not even having a spark of clear romance on screen, then watch Crazy, Stupid, Love. If you're bored of seeing the big budget action movies that most everyone is accustomed to, then watch Crazy, Stupid, Love. If you like movies in general, watch Crazy, Stupid, Love. I swear, I enjoyed following Cal's transformation from depressed alcohol drinking soon-to-be bachelor to a more confident man who cares even more about his family than he did at the beginning of the movie. I would consider 3 things being essential to romantic comedies: chemistry, good screenplay, and genuinely funny. Crazy, Stupid, Love checks off all those things plus more.

What're you waiting for? Go watch it and have fun!

Crazy, Stupid, Love is rated PG-13 for coarse humor, sexual content and language.

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Crazy, Stupid, Love is available on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download now.

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